Black/Gay

The Harlem Renaissance, the Protest Era, and the Constructions of Black Gay Identity in the 1980s and 90s

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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This book explores key texts of the black gay culture of the 1980s and ’90s. Starting with an analysis of the political discourse in anthologies such as In the Life and Brother to Brother, it identifies the references to the Harlem Renaissance and the Protest Era as common elements of black gay discourse. This connection to African American cultural and political traditions legitimizes black gay identity and criticizes the construction of gay identity as white. Readings of Isaac Julien’s Looking for Langston, Samuel R. Delany’s “Atlantis: Model 1924” and The Motion of Light in Water, Melvin Dixon’s Vanishing Rooms, Randall Kenan’s A Visitation of Spirits, and Steven Corbin’s No Easy Place to Be demonstrate how these strategies of signifying are used in affirmative, humorous, and ironic ways.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2012-06-01
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt476 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor296
FörlagMichigan State University Press
ISBN9781611860092

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Socialhistoria och kulturhistoria inom Historia och arkeologi
HBTQ+ inom Samhalle och politik
Etnicitet inom Samhalle och politik

Contents 1. Introduction 2. Debates of the 1980s 2.1 Political Strategies and Debates 2.2 The Critique of White Gay Racism 2.3 The Debate about Black Gay Identity 2.4 The Debate about Gay Interracial Love and Sexuality 2.5 Constructing Black Gay Myths of Origin 3. Queer of Color Critique – Contemporary Theoretical Approaches 3.1.1 Anti-essentialist Approaches towards Identities 3.1.2 Representational Intersectionality: Stereotypes of Black Men 3.1.3 The Construction of Gayness as a White Identity 3.1.4 AIDS 3.2 Black Queer Studies 3.3 Interpellation 3.4 Disidentification 3.5 Quare/Signifying 4. Looking for the Harlem Renaissance 4.1 Race and Representation 4.1.1 Dissident Voices 4.1.2 Queer Readings of the Harlem Renaissance 4.1.3 Richard Bruce Nugent: “Smoke, Lilies and Jade” (1926) 4.2 Steven Corbin: No Easy Place to Be (1989) 4.2.1 Coming Out in the Harlem Renaissance 4.2.2 Signifying on “Smoke, Lilies and Jade” 4.3 Isaac Julien: Looking for Langston (1989) 4.3.1 Cinematography and Black Queer History 4.3.2 The Burden of Representation 4.3.3 Adapting “Smoke, Lilies and Jade” 4.3.4 Gay Whiteness 4.4 Samuel R. Delany: “Atlantis: Model 1924” (1995) 4.4.1 Meta-Signifying 4.4.2 Inventing Origins 4.4.3 Deconstructing Black Gay Myths of Origin 5. Looking for Baldwin and the Protest Era 5.1 Baldwin and the Protest Era 5.1.1 Transatlantic Baldwin 5.1.2 Richard Wright and the Protest Novel 5.1.3 Black Nationalism and Homophobia 5.1.4 Baldwin’s Heterosexual Mask 5.2 Randall Kenan: A Visitation of Spirits (1989) 5.2.1 Baldwin Revisited 5.2.2 Constructions of Gay Whiteness 5.3 Melvin Dixon: Vanishing Rooms (1991) 5.3.1 Intertextuality and Intersectionality 5.3.2 White Gay Racism and Black Gay Identity 5.4.1 Interracial Desire and Interclass Contact 5.4.2 Experimental Self-Reflections 5.4.3 Black Autobiography and the Coming Out Narrative 5.4.4 “Coming/Out” 5.4.5 Differences and Intersections 5.4.6 Delany and Baldwin 6. Conclusion Works Cited