{"id":49378,"date":"2016-10-10T00:15:50","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T00:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49378"},"modified":"2019-04-12T13:02:51","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T13:02:51","slug":"gentleman-jigger-a-novel-of-the-harlem-renaissance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49378","title":{"rendered":"Gentleman Jigger: A Novel of the Harlem Renaissance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gentleman Jigger: A Novel of the Harlem Renaissance<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Da Capo Press<\/a>
\n2008-01-23 (originally written in 1928)
\n352 pages
\n5.5 x 0.8 x 8.2 inches
\nISBN: 978-0786720637<\/p>\n

Richard Bruce Nugent<\/strong><\/a> (1906-1987)<\/p>\n

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An important addition to the literature of the period, Gentleman Jigger<\/em> is the story of two brothers. Aeon, who passes for white<\/a> and becomes a famous poet, faces the conundrums of love across the color line. Stuartt, who is openly homosexual-as was the author-joins the younger intellectuals of Harlem<\/a> in defying authority figures, both black and white, at the notorious \u201cNiggeratti Manor.\u201d After the group disperses, Stuartt moves to Greenwich Village<\/a> and becomes sexually involved with a young hoodlum. Charming and audacious, Stuartt eventually seduces one of the gangster\u2019s top bosses, Orini, before his friendships with Wayne, a young heiress, and Bebe, Orini\u2019s \u201cmoll,\u201d set them all spinning in a whirlwind of jazz-age<\/a> glamour and celebrity…that ends in an ironic d\u00e9nouement<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An important addition to the literature of the period, Gentleman Jigger is the story of two brothers. Aeon, who passes for white and becomes a famous poet, faces the conundrums of love across the color line. Stuartt, who is openly homosexual-as was the author-joins the younger intellectuals of Harlem in defying authority figures, both black and white, at the notorious \u201cNiggeratti Manor.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,666,8,15,6462,20],"tags":[25171,20850,2711,596,25172,12200],"class_list":["post-49378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-gaylesbian","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-bruce-nugent","tag-da-capo-press","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-richard-bruce","tag-richard-bruce-nugent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49378"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57909,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49378\/revisions\/57909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}