Conversations with Samuel R. Delany (Literary Conversations Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1604732784 ISBN 13: 9781604732788

Verlag: University Press of Mississippi, 2009

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A key figure in modern science fiction and fantasy, Samuel R. Delany (b. 1942) is also one of the most acclaimed figures in contemporary literary theory and gay/lesbian literature. As a gay African American writer, Delany's cerebral, experimental prose crosses lines of genre, gender, sexuality, and class. Several of his works--Dhalgren, The Einstein Intersection, Babel-17, Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand, and the Nevéryon quartet are considered landmarks of "new wave" science fiction. His essays and critical works approach a wide variety of subjects from a perspective that is both resolutely philosophical and deeply provocative.

Conversations with Samuel R. Delany collects interviews with the writer from 1980 to 2007. Delany considers the interview an especially fruitful form for the generation of ideas, and he has made it an integral part of his own work. In fact, two of his critical works are collections of interviews and correspondence. He insists that all interviews with him be written correspondence so that he is allowed the time and space to deliberate on each response. As a result, the conversations presented here are as rigorously constructed, elusive, and intellectually stimulating as his essays.

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<b>Carl Freedman</b> is professor of English at Louisiana State University and author of <i>Critical Theory and Science Fiction</i>; <i>The Incomplete Projects: Marxism, Modernity, and the Politics of Culture</i>; and <i>George Orwell: A Study in Ideology and Literary Form. </i>He is also editor of <i>Conversations with Isaac Asimov </i>and <i>Conversations with Ursula K. Le Guin</i>, both published by University Press of Mississippi.

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Interviews with the author of Dhalgren; Babel-17; Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand; the Nevéryon cycle; and Times Square Red, Times Square Blue

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University Press of Mississippi
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1604732784
• ISBN 13: 9781604732788
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
• Herausgeber: Freedman Carl
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