Bulldaggers, pansies, and chocolate babies : performance, race, and sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance

Bulldaggers, pansies, and chocolate babies performance, race, and sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance

Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies shines the spotlight on historically neglected plays and performances that challenged early twentieth-century notions of the stratification of race, gender, class, and sexual orientation. On Broadway stages, in Harlem nightclubs and dance halls, and within...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Wilson, James F. (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press 2010.
Colección:Triangulations: lesbian/gay/queer theater/drama/performance.
Materias:
American drama > African American authors > History and criticism.
American drama > 20th century > History and criticism.
African Americans in the performing arts > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Theater > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
African Americans > New York (State) > New York > Intellectual life.
Harlem Renaissance.
African Americans in literature.
Race in literature.
Sex in the theater.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009754399006719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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".

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