Gay rebel of the Harlem renaissance : selections from the work of Richard Bruce Nugent
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Gay rebel of the Harlem renaissance : selections from the work of Richard Bruce Nugent
Duke University Press, 2002
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-287) and index
Contents of Works
- 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
- Stuartt 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
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Richard Bruce Nugent (1906-1987) was a writer, painter, illustrator, and popular bohemian personality who lived at the center of the Harlem Renaissance. Protege of Alain Locke, roommate of Wallace Thurman, and friend of Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, the precocious Nugent stood for many years as the only African-American writer willing to clearly pronounce his homosexuality in print. His contribution to the landmark publication FIRE!!, "Smoke, Lilies and Jade," was unprecedented in its celebration of same-sex desire. A resident of the notorious "Niggeratti Manor," Nugent also appeared on Broadway in Porgy (the 1927 play) and Run, Little Chillun (1933)
Thomas H. Wirth, a close friend of Nugent's during the last years of the artist's life, has assembled a selection of Nugent's most important writings, paintings, and drawings-works mostly unpublished or scattered in rare and obscure publications and collected here for the first time. Wirth has written an introduction providing biographical information about Nugent's life and situating his art in relation to the visual and literary currents which influenced him. A foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr. emphasizes the importance of Nugent for African American history and culture.
Table of Contents
Foreword / Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Early Work
The Bible Stories
Harlem
Gentleman Jigger (excerpts)
Harlem Renaissance Personalities
Images
After the Harlem Renaissance
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Credits and Copyright Acknowledgments
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