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Author:

Wilson, James F.

Title:

Bulldaggers, pansies, and chocolate babies : performance, race, and sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance / James F. Wilson.

Publisher:

University of Michigan Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

ix, 260 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American drama--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American drama--20th century--History and criticism.
African Americans in the performing arts--New York--New York--History--20th century.
Theater--New York--New York--History--20th century.
African Americans--New York--New York--Intellectual life.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century.
Harlem Renaissance.
African Americans in literature.
Race in literature.
Sex in the theater.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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"

Series:

Triangulations: lesbian/gay/queer theater/drama/performance.

ISBN:

0472026968 (ebk.)
9780472026968 (ebk.)
0472117254 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780472117253 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)466344607

LCCN:

2009050344

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)