Blossoming in Strange New Forms: Male Homosexuality and the Harlem Renaissance

Authors

James Kelley

Abstract

Uses the symposium near the end of Wallace Thurman's Infants of the Spring to examine conflicting models for gay identity for black male writers in the Harlem Renaissance.

First Page

499

Last Page

517

Publication Date

1-1-1997

College

MSU-Meridian

Department

MSU-Meridian - Division of Arts and Sciences

Keywords

harlem renaissance, wallace thurman, countee cullen, alain locke, langston hughes, zora neale hurston, hybridity

Recommended Citation

Kelley, James. "Blossoming in Strange New Forms: Male Homosexuality and the Harlem Renaissance." Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal 80.4 (Winger 1997): 499-517.