Gay rebel of the Harlem renaissance : selections from the work of Richard Bruce Nugent / Richard Bruce Nugent ; edited and with an introduction by Thomas H. Wirth ; foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nugent, Bruce, 1906-1987
Other Authors: Wirth, Thomas H., 1938-2014
Language:English
Published: Durham, [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2002.
Subjects:
African American gay people > Literary collections.
Racially mixed people > Literary collections.
Gay men > Literary collections.
African American arts.
Harlem Renaissance.
Genre:
Literary collections.
Physical Description:xii, 293 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Early work
  • Sahdji
  • Smoke, lilies and jade
  • Narcissus
  • Scheme
  • Bastard song
  • Who asks this thing?
  • Geisha man (excerpt)
  • The Bible stories
  • Beyond where the star stood still
  • The now discordant song of bells
  • Slender length of beauty
  • Tree with kerioth-fruit
  • Harlem
  • On Harlem
  • The dark tower
  • Gentleman Jigger (excerpts)
  • Salt Lake saga
  • Meeting Raymond
  • Rent party
  • Negro art
  • Stuatt gets a job
  • Orini
  • Harlem renaissance personalities
  • On Georgette Harvey
  • On Rose McClendon
  • On the dark tower
  • On Blanche Dunn
  • On "Gloria Swanson"
  • On Alexander Gumby
  • On Carl van Vechten
  • After the Harlem renaissance
  • Transition
  • Pope Pius the only
  • Lunatique
  • You think to shame me
  • You see, I am a homosexual.