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Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance
Selections from the Work of Richard Bruce Nugent
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Richard Bruce Nugent
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Edited by:
Thomas H. Wirth
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With contributions by:
Henry Louis Gates
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English
Published/Copyright:
2002
About this book
A collection of writings and artwork by Richard Bruce Nugent, an important yet heretofore obscure figure of the Harlem Renaissance.
Author / Editor information
Richard Bruce Nugent, one of the last surviving Harlem Renaissance luminaries when he died in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1987, was born in Washington, DC in 1906 and lived most of his life in New York City. Thomas H. Wirth is an independent scholar, bibliophile, and publisher who for twenty-five years was a staff representative for the New Jersey State College/University affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO. He has a Ph.D. in chemistry from California Institute of Technology, and has taught at South Carolina State University, Southern University, Mary Holmes College, and Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. His website devoted to Richard Bruce Nugent is located at http://www.brucenugent.com/
Reviews
“Nugent is one of the best-known unknowns of the Harlem Renaissance—widely quoted by its chroniclers and revered by people interested in black gay history. By restoring his place in history and making his work widely available for scrutiny, this book performs an invaluable service. Wirth’s introduction also provides an extraordinary tour of the gay side of the Renaissance and vivid glimpses of bohemian life in Harlem and the arts circles Nugent moved in.”—George Chauncey, author of Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World
"One of the key figures in both the creative world of the Harlem Renaissance and the complex underground world of gay culture, Bruce Nugent at last speaks here for himself."from the foreword, by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
“Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance marks the first time so much information about Nugent has been collected between two covers . . . . [T]he sheer volume of Nugent’s work, some published for the first time here, would warrant such a collection.”
-- Terrance Heath Lambda Book Report
“A must-have. For students of African-American literature, it is the missing piece of the jigsaw puzzle that comprises black history in the 20th century. For lovers of gay literature, it is a rare glimpse of early work that does not share the same morbidity that so often characterized Nugent’s Caucasian counterparts.”
-- Anthony Glassman Gay People's Chronicle
“[F]ascinating. . . . This anthology of [Nugent’s] artistic output is of major importance.”
-- Raoul Abdul Amsterdam News
"Rebel offers a much-needed fleshing out of Nugent's contribution to the Harlem Renaissance. In addition to an informative introduction by its editor, Rebel collects, along with the few previously published pieces, a great deal of unpublished (and sometimes incomplete) writing. . . . Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance provides a more vivid glimpse of queer Harlem than has emerged in any other writing by its inhabitants. More importantly, this collection offers us a language of same-sex desire and community largely freed from our contemporary assumptions about such things."
-- Mason Stokes Callaloo
"[A] new collection of the writings and drawings of Richard Bruce Nugent, that most famously 'unfamous’ member of the Harlem Renaissance. . . . Nugent’s story has come to be recognized as the first affirmative, unblushing statement of homosexual desire in African-American literature—thus the appeallation 'gay rebel.’"
-- Robert Reid-Pharr Chronicle Review
"Richard Bruce Nugent, one of the lesser-known members of the Renaissance, had the distinction of being the only openly gay member of its ranks. . . . Wirth’s lengthy introduction nicely lays the groundwork for understanding Nugent’s life, his literary forebears, and his influences in the Harlem Renaissance. . . . Gay Rebel also includes a generous collection of both black-and-white and glossy color reproductions of Nugent’s drawings and paintings. . . . This book is a fascinating, well-researched, and loving tribute to an artist worth remembering."
-- Martha E. Stone Gay & Lesbian Review
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
May 23, 2002
eBook ISBN:
9780822383611
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
312
Other:
78 illustrations, including 16-pages in color
