Go the way your blood beats : an anthology of lesbian and gay fiction by African-American writers / foreword by E. Lynn Harris ; edited and with an introduction by Shawn Stewart Ruff.

Contributor(s): Ruff, Shawn StewartMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: New York : H. Holt, 1996Edition: 1st edDescription: xxix, 544 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 0805047360 (alk. paper); 080504437X (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Gays' writings, American | American fiction -- African American authors | Lesbians -- Fiction | Gay men -- Fiction | African American gays -- Fiction | American fiction -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 813.008/0920664 LOC classification: PS648.H57 | G6 1996
Contents:
The women / Gayl Jones -- The outing / James Baldwin -- Meredith's lie / Shawn Stewart Ruff -- What has been done to me / Jacqueline Woodson -- To taste fire once more / Charles W. Harvey -- Ice castle / Becky Birtha -- Near the end of the world / Bruce Morrow -- The alternative / Amiri Baraka -- The truth of the matter / Bennett Capers -- Run, mourner, run / Randall Kenan -- There's a window / Sapphire -- Smoke, lilies and jade / Richard Bruce Nugent -- The Statue of Liberty / John Edgar Wideman -- The place of excrement / Samuel R. Delany -- Bathesda of Sinners Run / Maude Irwin Owens -- Man of all work / Richard Wright -- The temple of my familiar / Alice Walker -- Just friends / Brooke M. Stephens -- Obi's story / Cary Alan Johnson -- Asphalt / Carl Hancock Rux -- Infants of the spring / Wallace Thurman -- Dissimulations / Orian Hyde Weeks -- The two / Gloria Naylor -- Zami : a new spelling of my name / Audre Lorde -- Afro Jew fro / Catherine E. McKinley -- Song of Solomon / Toni Morrison -- Babylon / Max Gordon -- A carnival jangle / Alice Dunbar Nelson -- Just as I am / E. Lynn Harris -- Undressing Lady J. / Artress Bethany White -- Summertime, and the living is easy-- / Reginald Shepherd -- Epithalamion / Carolivia Herron.
Summary: An anthology of gay and lesbian fiction by black writers. In Bennett Capers' The Truth of the Matter, a reporter realizes his true sexuality as he investigates a murder, while an excerpt from E. Lynn Harris' Invisible Life tackles the male bonding--spoken and unspoken--that goes on in fraternities.
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The women / Gayl Jones -- The outing / James Baldwin -- Meredith's lie / Shawn Stewart Ruff -- What has been done to me / Jacqueline Woodson -- To taste fire once more / Charles W. Harvey -- Ice castle / Becky Birtha -- Near the end of the world / Bruce Morrow -- The alternative / Amiri Baraka -- The truth of the matter / Bennett Capers -- Run, mourner, run / Randall Kenan -- There's a window / Sapphire -- Smoke, lilies and jade / Richard Bruce Nugent -- The Statue of Liberty / John Edgar Wideman -- The place of excrement / Samuel R. Delany -- Bathesda of Sinners Run / Maude Irwin Owens -- Man of all work / Richard Wright -- The temple of my familiar / Alice Walker -- Just friends / Brooke M. Stephens -- Obi's story / Cary Alan Johnson -- Asphalt / Carl Hancock Rux -- Infants of the spring / Wallace Thurman -- Dissimulations / Orian Hyde Weeks -- The two / Gloria Naylor -- Zami : a new spelling of my name / Audre Lorde -- Afro Jew fro / Catherine E. McKinley -- Song of Solomon / Toni Morrison -- Babylon / Max Gordon -- A carnival jangle / Alice Dunbar Nelson -- Just as I am / E. Lynn Harris -- Undressing Lady J. / Artress Bethany White -- Summertime, and the living is easy-- / Reginald Shepherd -- Epithalamion / Carolivia Herron.

An anthology of gay and lesbian fiction by black writers. In Bennett Capers' The Truth of the Matter, a reporter realizes his true sexuality as he investigates a murder, while an excerpt from E. Lynn Harris' Invisible Life tackles the male bonding--spoken and unspoken--that goes on in fraternities.

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