Freedom in This Village charts for the first time ever the innovative course of black gay male literature of the past 25 years. Starting in 1979 with the publication of James Baldwin's final novel, Just Above My Head, then on to the radical writings of the 1980s, the breakthrough successes of the 1990s, and up to today's new works, editor E. Lynn Harris collects 47 sensational stories, poems, novel excerpts, and essays. Authors featured include Samuel R. Delany, Essex Hemphill, Melvin Dixon, Marlon Riggs, Assotto Saint, Larry Duplechan, Reginald Shepherd, Carl Phillips, Keith Boykin, Randall Kenan, Thomas Glave, James Earl Hardy, Darieck Scott, Gary Fisher, Bruce Morrow, John Keene, G. Winston James, Bil Wright, Robert Reid Pharr, Brian Keith Jackson, as well as an array of exciting new and established writers.
Author Biography:
About the Editor: E. Lynn Harris is the author of eight novels and a memoir, What Becomes of the Broken-hearted? which chronicles his coming of age as a black gay man. Harris has been honored for his work by the NAACP and the Lambda Literary Foundation in addition to having been named by Out magazine as one of its "Out 100" personalities. A popular lecturer and visiting professor, he divides his time between Atlanta and Fayetteville, AR.
