Incites inquiry as to how modern American literature reflects on the problem of identity. Spotlights the contribution to modern American writing by Wallace Thurman’s "Harlem" fiction. Endeavors to link a racial imperative to a sexual imperative by means of a current theoretical discourse surrounding notions of city and community life.

David R. Jarraway, Tales of the City: Marginality, Community, and the Problem of (Gay) Identity in Wallace Thurman's "Harlem" Fiction, College English, Vol. 65, No. 1, Special Issue: Lesbian and Gay Studies/Queer Pedagogies (Sep., 2002), pp. 36-52