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pb |
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9780819562807 |
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Wesleyan University Press |
| Release Date: |
2008-05-23 |
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ITEM OVERVIEW
For nearly three decades, Samuel R. Delany's science fiction has transported millions of readers to the fringes of time, technology, and outer space. Now Delany surveys the realms of his own experience as writer, critic, theorist, and gay black man in this collection of written interviews, a type of guided essay.
Because the written interview avoids the "mutual presence positioned at the semantic core" of the traditional interview, Delany explains, "a kind of cut remains between the participants-a fissure in which the truths there may be more malleable, less rigid." Within that fissure Delany pursues the breadth and depth of his ideas on language and theory, the politics of literary composition, the experience of marginality, and the philosophical, commercial, and personal contexts of writing today.
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