Shorter Views

Queer Thoughts and the Politics of the Paraliterary

By: Samuel R. Delany

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Paperback | 1 May 2000

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A brilliant theorist and cultural critic on race, sexuality, science fiction, and the art of writing.

In Shorter Views, Hugo and Nebula award-winning author Samuel R. Delany brings his remarkable intellectual powers to bear on a wide range of topics. Whether he is exploring the deeply felt issues of identity, race, and sexuality, untangling the intricacies of literary theory, or the writing process itself, Delany is one of the most lucid and insightful writers of our time. These essays cluster around topics related to queer theory on the one hand, and on the other, questions concerning the paraliterary genres: science fiction, pornography, comics, and more. Readers new to Delany's work will find this collection of shorter pieces an especially good introduction, while those already familiar with his writing will appreciate having these essays between two covers for the first time.

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"This important collection demonstrates ï¿½Delany'sï¿½ passion and intelligence, and his dedication to pursuing difficult questions about writing, theory, teaching and sexuality." --Publishers Weekly "A daringly original mind at work."--Library Journal "A daringly original mind at work." Library Journal Publishers Weekly" Library Journal" "A daringly original mind at work." "Library Journal"" This important collection demonstrates [Delany's] passion and intelligence, and his dedication to pursuing difficult questions about writing, theory, teaching and sexuality.-- "Publishers Weekly" A daringly original mind at work.-- "Library Journal" "A daringly original mind at work."--Library Journal "This important collection demonstrates [Delany's] passion and intelligence, and his dedication to pursuing difficult questions about writing, theory, teaching and sexuality." --Publishers Weekly "A daringly original mind at work." Library Journal"

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Preface: On Creativity and Academic Writing
Some Queer Thoughts: The Rhetoric of Sex/ The Discourse of Desire
Street Talk/ Straight Talk
On the Unspeakable
Coming/ Out
A Bend in the Road
The "Gay" Writer/ "Gay Writing"...?
The Black Leather in Color Interview
The Thomas L. Long Interciew

The Politics of the Paraliterary: Neither the First Word nor the Last on Deconstruction, Structuralism, Poststructuralism, and Semiotics for SF Readers
The Para*doxa Interview: Inside and Outside the Canon
The Politics of Paraliterary Criticism
Zalazny/ Varley Gibson- and Quality
Pornography and Censorship
The Making of Hogg
The Phil Leggiere Interview :Reading The Mad Man
The Second Science-Fiction Studies Interview: Of Trouble on Triton and Other Matters

Some Writing/Some Writers : Antonia Byatt's Possession: A Romance
Neil Gaiman, I, II, and III
A Tribute to Judith Merril
Michael Perkins's Evil Companions
Now It's Time for Dale Peck
Othello in Brooklyn
A Prefatory Notice to Vincent Czyz's Adrift in a Vanishing City
Under the Volcano with Susan Sontag
Some Remarks on Narrative and Technology or: Poetry and Truth
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