Queer Pollen: White Seduction, Black Male Homosexuality, and the Cinematic

by David A. Gerstner

Book Overview

Queer Pollen discusses three notable black queer twentieth century artists--painter and writer Richard Bruce Nugent, author James Baldwin, and filmmaker Marlon Riggs--and the unique ways they turned to various media to work through their experiences living as queer black men. David A. Gerstner elucidates the complexities in expressing queer black desire through traditional art forms such as painting, poetry, and literary prose, or in the industrial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252077873
• ISBN13: 9780252077876
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"