Table of Contents

Preliminary Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Gay Harlem and the Harlem Renaissance
2. Writing in the Harlem Renaissance: The Burden of Representation and Sexual Dissidence
3. Countée Cullen: "His Virtues Are Many; His Vices Unheard Of"
4. Langston Hughes: A "True 'People's Poet'"
5. Claude McKay: "Enfant Terrible of the Negro Renaissance"
6. Richard Bruce Nugent: The Quest for Beauty
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Promotional Information

Choice Outstanding Academic Title (2005)

About the Author

A. B. Christa Schwarz is an independent scholar and lives in Germany.

Reviews

"Heretofore scholars have not been willing perhaps, even been unable for many reasons both academic and personal to identify much of the Harlem Renaissance work as same-sex oriented... An important book." Jim Elledge