Freedom in This Village Twenty-Five Years of Black Gay Men's Writing

by Harris, E. Lynn

• ISBN13: 9780786713875
• ISBN10: 0786713879
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-12-06
• Publisher: Da Capo Press

Summary

Freedom in This Village charts for the first time ever the innovative course of black gay male literature of the past 25 years. Starting in 1979 with the publication of James Baldwin's final novel, Just Above My Head, then on to the radical writings of the 1980s, the breakthrough successes of the 1990s, and up to today's new works, editor E. Lynn Harris collects 47 sensational stories, poems, novel excerpts, and essays. Authors featured include Samuel R. Delany, Essex Hemphill, Melvin Dixon, Marlon Riggs, Assotto Saint, Larry Duplechan, Reginald Shepherd, Carl Phillips, Keith Boykin, Randall Kenan, Thomas Glave, James Earl Hardy, Darieck Scott, Gary Fisher, Bruce Morrow, John Keene, G. Winston James, Bil Wright, Robert Reid Pharr, Brian Keith Jackson, as well as an array of exciting new and established writers.

Author Biography

E. Lynn Harris is the author of eight novels and a memoir, A popular lecturer and visiting professor, he divides his time between Atlanta and Fayetteville, AR

Table of Contents

Introduction	xiii
from Just Above My Head (1979)	1	(12)
James Baldwin
Passion (1981)	13	(4)
Sidney Brinkley
Assumption about the Harlem Brown Baby (1983)	17	(4)
Salih Michael Fisher
Brother to Brother: Words from the Heart (1984)	21	(14)
Joseph Beam
from Flight from Neveryon (1985)	35	(10)
Samuel R. Delany
Michael Stewart is Dead (1985)	45	(2)
Isaac Jackson
On Not Being White (1986)	47	(18)
Reginald Shepherd
19 A Poem About Kenny/Portrait of a Hard Rock (1986)	65	(2)
Jerry Thompson
The Trouble I've Seen (1987)	67	(16)
Gil Gerald
Other Countries: The Importance of Difference (1987)	83	(18)
Daniel Garrett
Couch Poem (1989)	101	(6)
Donald W. Woods
Brothers Loving Brothers (1989)	107	(2)
Vega
``Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien'' (1989)	109	(4)
David Frechette
The Tomb of Sorrow (1989)	113	(14)
Essex Hemphill
Aunt Ida Pieces a Quilt (1989)	127	(4)
Melvin Dixon
For Colored Boys Who Have Considered S-Curls When the Hot Comb Was Enuf (1990)	131	(6)
Marvin K. White
I'm Going Out Like a Fucking Meteor (1991)	137	(14)
Craig G. Harris
Black Macho Revisited: Reflections of a SNAP! Queen (1991)	151	(8)
Marlon Riggs
Comfort (1991)	159	(2)
Don Charles
The Foundations of the Earth (1992)	161	(20)
Randall Kenan
Mike #2 (1992)	181	(8)
Robert E. Penn
from Captain Swing (1993)	189	(8)
Larry Duplechan
from Fragments That Remain (1993)	197	(10)
Steven Corbin
Post-Nuclear Slut (1993)	207	(2)
Cary Alan Johnson
This City of Men (1994)	209	(28)
Darieck Scott
A Courtesy, a Trenchant Grace (1994)	237	(4)
Cyrus Cassells
Where We Live: A Conversation with Essex Hemphill and Issac Julien (1994)	241	(14)
Don Belton
Vital Signs (1995)	255	(2)
Assotto Saint
A Boy Doesn't Know (1995)	257	(2)
Forrest Hamer
Uprising (1995)	259	(4)
G. Winston James
from 2nd Time Around (1996)	263	(14)
James Earl Hardy
Fantasy (1996)	277	(2)
Cy K. Jones
Arabesque (1996)	279	(6)
Gary Fisher
Your Mother from Cleveland (1996)	285	(10)
Bil Wright
The Letter (1999)	295	(6)
Donald Keith Jackson
Living as a Lesbian (2001)	301	(12)
Robert Reid-Pharr
How to Handle a Boy in Women's Shoes (2001)	313	(6)
Brian Keith Jackson
Minotaur (2002)	319	(4)
Carl Phillips
from A Long and Liberating Moan (2002)	323	(4)
L.M. Ross
Magnetix (2002)	327	(4)
Tim'm West
from Beyond the Down Low: Sex and Denial in Black America (2004)	331	(16)
Keith Boykin
The Death and Light of Brian Williamson (2004)	347	(6)
Thomas Glave
Palimpsest (2004)	353	(16)
John Keene
Game (2004)	369	(14)
James Hannaham
from Walt Loves the Bearcat (2004)	383	(18)
Randy Boyd
Infidelity (2004)	401	(20)
Bruce Morrow
What I Did for Love (2004)	421	(24)
E. Lynn Harris
Bibliography	445	(4)
About the Contributors	449	(8)
Permissions	457	(4)
About the Editor	461