Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-202) and index.
Contents
Gay Harlem and the Harlem Renaissance -- Writing in the Harlem Renaissance: the burden of representation and sexual dissidence -- Countee Cullen: "his virtues are many; his vices unheard of" -- Langston Hughes: a 'true people's poet' -- Claude McKay "enfant terrible of the Negro Renaissance" -- Richard Bruce Nugent: the quest for beauty.