A Sense of Wonder: Samuel R. Delany, Race, Identity, and Difference - Softcover

Tucker, Jeffrey Allen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0819566896 ISBN 13: 9780819566898

Verlag: Wesleyan University Press, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Tucker Jeffrey Allen

Über diesen Titel

Críticas:

"This admirable, often stunning, book presents Delany as the ideal postmodern intellectual and locates his work within the traditions of African-American thought and culture without ever losing touch with the excitement his work engenders." -- James Sallis, editor of Ash of Stars

Reseña del editor:

Samuel R. Delany is one of today's most interesting writers. African-American and gay, Delany crosses boundaries-generic (science fiction, memoir, theory, pornography) and academic (literary studies, cultural studies, African-American studies, gay and lesbian studies). Critics both black and white have read Delany as a writer who downplays his racial identity in order to aspire to universal values. In contrast, A Sense of Wonder shows how Delany's works participate in African-American cultural traditions. The book begins with an analysis of Delany's Dhalgren, using the novel's links to black cultural traditions as the key to unlocking its puzzling content. Jeffrey Allen Tucker's reading of the four-volume Return to Neveryon series places Delany's explorations of semiotics in dialogue with Frederick Douglass's 1845 Narrative and social histories on slavery in America. From there, Tucker moves to Delany's groundbreaking autobiography, The Motion of Light in Water, his experimental novella Atlantis: Model, 1925, and to his pornographic novel, The Mad Man. Tucker's aim is to advance a reading of identity that acknowledges its multiplicity and permeability without emptying it of socio-political efficacy and meaning.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Wesleyan University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0819566896
• ISBN 13: 9780819566898
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 360