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Author:

Tucker, Jeffrey A., 1966-

Title:

A sense of wonder : Samuel R. Delany, race, identity and difference / Jeffrey Allen Tucker.

Publisher:

Wesleyan University Press,

Copyright Date:

©2004

Description:

xiv, 344 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Delany, Samuel R.--Criticism and interpretation.
Delany, Samuel R.--Critique et interprétation.
Delany, Samuel R.
Delany, Samuel R.
Homosexuality and literature--United States--History--20th century.
Science fiction, American--History and criticism.
Difference (Psychology) in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Race in literature.
Gays in literature.

Notes:

Based on author's Ph. D. thesis, Princeton University, 1997. Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-333) and index.

Contents:

Dangerous and important differences : Samuel R. Delany and the politics of identity -- Contending forces : racial and sexual narratives in Dhalgren -- The empire of signs : slavery, semiotics, and sexuality in the Return to Nevèrÿon series -- The window of autobiography : The motion of light in water -- Magic, memory, and migration : Atlantis: model 1924 -- A revolution from within : paraliterature as AIDS activism.

ISBN:

9780819566881
0819566888
0819566896
9780819566898

OCLC:

(OCoLC)54035217

LCCN:

2004000521

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)