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The definitive and most comprehensive book of 20th century black lesbian and gay writing ever published, this epic anthology features the work of such acclaimed authors as James Baldwin, Alice Walker, Langston Hughes, E. Lynn Harris, Audre Lorde and April Sinclair. Divided into three chronological sections, this book includes author profiles and bibliographies, plus a secondary bibliography of works by poets, playwrights, performers and activists, as well as scholarly essays that set the political/cultural/historical context for black gay literature in the US.

Foreword

Evelyn C. White

Preface

xiii

Acknowledgments

xix

1900-1950: The Harlem Renaissance ``...the perfumed orchid of the New Negro Movement''

(106)

Alice Dunbar-Nelson: Natalie (1898)

(11)

Angelina Weld Grimke: The Closing Door (1919)

(17)

Langston Hughes: Blessed Assurance

(7)

Wallace Thurman: from Infants of the Spring (1932)

(10)

Richard Bruce Nugent: Smoke, Lilies, and Jade (1925)

(15)

Countee Cullen: from One Way to Heaven (1932)

(19)

1950-1980: The Protest Era ``I dream of your freedom/as my victory...''

107

(160)

Owen Dodson: from Boy at the Window (1951)

136

(12)

James Baldwin: from Another Country (1962)

148

(16)

Rosa Guy: from Ruby (1976)

164

(12)

Audre Lorde: from Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (1982)

176

(15)

Samuel R. Delany: Aye, and Gomoxrah... (1967)

191

(12)

Red Jordan Arobateau: from Suzie Q (1978)

203

(14)

Julie Blackwomon: Symbols (1990)

217

(13)

Alice Walker: This Is How It Happened (2000)

230

(6)

Michelle Cliff: Ecce Homo (2000)

236

(5)

Cheryl Clarke: Women of Summer (1977)

241

(26)

1980-2000: Coming Out Black, Like Us ``Now I speak and my burden is lightened...''

267

(232)

Becky Birtha: In the Life (1987)

288

(13)

Alexis DeVeaux: Bird of Paradise (1992)

301

(6)

Jewelle Gomez: from The Gilda Stories (1991)

307

(11)

Melvin Dixon: from Vanishing Rooms (1991)

318

(14)

Donna Allegra: Dance of the Cranes (1997)

332

(16)

Steven Corbin: from A Hundred Days from Now (1994)

348

(11)

Canaan Parker: from The Color of Trees (1992)

359

(8)

April Sinclair: from Coffee Will Make You Black (1994)

367

(11)

Larry Duplechan: from Captain Swing (1998)

378

(7)

E. Lynn Harris: from Invisible Life (1991)

385

(8)

Shay Youngblood: from Soul Kiss (1997)

393

(8)

Helen Elaine Lee: from The Serpent's Gift (1994)

401

(10)

Randall Kenan: The Foundations of the Earth (1992)

411

(18)

Jacqueline Woodson: from From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun (1995)

429

(8)

Bil Wright: from Sunday You Learn How to Box (2000)

437

(11)

Darieck Scott: from Traitor to the Race (1995)

448

(8)

Thomas Glave: Whose Song? (2000)

456

(13)

James Earl Hardy: from B-Boy Blues (1994)

469

(8)

Brian Keith Jackson: from Walking Through Mirrors (1998)

477

(10)

Marci Blackman: from Po Man's Child (1999)

487

(12)

Notes

499

(7)

Permissions

506

(3)

Bibliography

509

(34)

About the Editors

543

(1)

Index

544

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