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- Title
Harlem's Queer Dandy: African-American Modernism and the Artifice of Blackness.
- Authors
Glick, Elisa F.
- Abstract
There is perhaps no greater refutation to the bifurcating logic that opposes racial and queer identification than Harlem's black dandy of the 1920s and 1930s. A figure of urbanity, decadence, and polished elegance, the black aesthete makes dandyism a badge of openly queer desire and anti-bourgeois politics. This article argues that complexities and contradictions of dandyism as symbol and oppositional act make legible not simply the bifurcation of race and sexuality but rather their interrelation. According to the author, the tide of Black migration reconceptualized African-American identity in relation to the central contradictions of modernity.
- Subjects
RACISM; DANDIES; DECADENCE (Literary movement); INTERNAL migration; ETHNICITY; AFRICAN Americans
- Publication
Modern Fiction Studies, 2003, Vol 49, Issue 3, p414
- ISSN
0026-7724
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/mfs.2003.0049