Freedom in This Village: Twenty-Five Years of Black Gay Men's Writing, 1979 to the Present
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,...
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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.
From Just above my head1Passion13Assumption about the Harlem brown baby17Brother to brother : words from the heart21From Flight from Neveryon35Michael Stewart is dead45On not being white4719 a poem about Kenny/portrait of a hard rock65The trouble I've seen67Other countries : the importance of difference83Couch poem101Brothers loving brothers107"Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien"109The tomb of sorrow113Aunt Ada pieces a quilt127For colored boys who have considered s-curls when the hot comb was enuf131I'm going out lke a fucking meteor137Black macho revisited : reflections of a SNAP! queen151Uprising259From 2nd time around263Fantasy277Arabesque279Your mother from Cleveland285The letter295Living as a lesbian301How to handle a boy in women's shoes313Minotaur319From A long and liberating moan323Magnetix327From Beyond the down low : sex and denial in black America331The death and light of Brian Williamson347Palimpsest353Game369From Walt loves the bearcat383Infidelity401What I did for love421
