Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-243) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Against uplift : performance, literature, and the queer Harlem Renaissance -- American cabaret performance and the production of intimacy -- The scene of Harlem cabaret : 1926 and after -- Closing time : Langston Hughes and the queer poetics of Harlem nightlife -- Rereading Du Bois reading McKay : uplift sociology and the problem of amusement -- Lena Horne's impersona -- Afterword: Irrealizing the queer Harlem Renaissance.