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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the artist's life, has assembled a selection of Nugent's most important writings, paintings, and drawings-works mostly unpublished or scattered in rare and obscure publications and collected here for the first time.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.

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Publié par

Duke University Press

Date de parution

23 mai 2002

EAN13

9780822383611

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

3 Mo

American English Inglés estadounidense

GAY REBEL OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE

Richard Bruce Nugent about .

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.

Duke University Press

Durham and London 

Copyright ©  Thomas H. Wirth All rights reserved. The credits and copyright acknowledgments at the end of this volume constitute a continuation of the copyright page. Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper  Typeset in Scala by Tseng Information Systems, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book.

In Memory of Raymond Jenkins and Bernard Kay

              .

CONTENTS

Foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr. xi

Acknowledgments xiii

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 

IMAGES

AFTER THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE Transition  Pope Pius the Only  Lunatique  You Think to Shame Me  You See, I Am a Homosexual 

Notes 

Bibliography 

Index 

Credits and Copyright Acknowledgments 

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