Bergman, David.
"The Agony of Gay Black Literature." Gaiety Transfigured: Gay
Self-
Representation in American Literature. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991. 163-
187. Rpt. in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Ed. Thomas J. Schoenberg and Lawrence
J. Trudeau. Vol. 218. Detroit: Gale, 2009. Literature Resource Center. Web. 16 Dec. 2012.
Representation in American Literature. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991. 163-
187. Rpt. in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Ed. Thomas J. Schoenberg and Lawrence
J. Trudeau. Vol. 218. Detroit: Gale, 2009. Literature Resource Center. Web. 16 Dec. 2012.
Bergman
discusses the problems James Baldwin, and other gay, Black authors, face in the
literary world. Mentions claims that a Black author cannot be gay, and vice
versa, because of the separation of their inequality. Specifically discusses
Eldridge Cleaver’s opinions of his ‘forcing homosexuality’ which Bergman
refutes. Continues on and discusses Baldwin’s personal views on homosexuality,
and the problems he faces with religion, specifically Pentecostalism. Main
point: discusses the role of homosexuality in Africa, seen through Baldwin, how
can one be Black and gay.
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