Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies Performance, Race, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance / [Recurso electrónico] :
James F. Wilson.
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2010.
- 1 online resource (ix, 260 p. :) ill. ;
- Triangulations: lesbian/gay/queer theater/drama/performance .
- Triangulations. Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: "It's getting dark on old Broadway" -- "Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer": parties, performances, and privacy in the "other" Harlem Renaissance(s) -- "Harlem on my mind": New York's black belt on the Great White Way -- "That's the kind of gal I am": drag balls, "sexual perversion," and David Belasco's Lulu Belle -- "Hottentot potentates": the potent and hot performances of Florence Mills and Ethel Waters -- "In my well of loneliness": Gladys Bentley's Bulldykin' blues -- Conclusion: "you've seen Harlem at its best".
Libro Electrónico
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Sex in the theater. Race in literature. African Americans in literature. Harlem Renaissance. Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century. African Americans--Intellectual life.--New York (State)--New York Theater--History--New York (State)--New York--20th century. African Americans in the performing arts--History--New York (State)--New York--20th century. American drama--History and criticism.--20th century American drama--African American authors--History and criticism.