Nugent / Wirth Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance

Selections from the Work of Richard Bruce Nugent
1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8361-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 310 Seiten

A collection of writings and artwork by Richard Bruce Nugent, an important yet heretofore obscure figure of the Harlem Renaissance.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nugent, Richard Bruce

Wirth, Thomas H.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Gates, Henry Louis

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword / Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Early Work

The Bible Stories

Harlem

Gentleman Jigger (excerpts)

Harlem Renaissance Personalities

Images

After the Harlem Renaissance

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Credits and Copyright Acknowledgments

Über Autor(innen)

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/