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The Fall of the Towers: Out of the Dead City The Towers of Toron City of a Thousand Suns
The Ballad of Beta-2
Babel-17
The Einstein Intersection
Nova
Driftglass (stories)
Equinox (The Tides of Lust)
Dhalgren
Trouble on Triton (Triton)
Distant Stars (stories)
Stars in My Pockets Like Grains of Sand
Return to Nevron: Tales of Nevron Neveryna Flight from Nevron Return to Nevron (The Bridge of Lost Desire)
Driftglass/Starshards (collected stories)
They Fly at iron
The Mad Man
Hogg
Atlantis: Three Tales
Nonfiction
The Jewel-Hinged Jaw
The American Shore
Heavenly Breakfast
Starboard Wine
The Motion of Light in Water
Wagner/Artaud
The Straits of Messina
Silent Interviews
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Longer Views
Extended Essays
Samuel R. Delany
With an Introduction By Ken James
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Wesleyan University Press
Published by University Press of New England, Hanover, NH 03755
Copyright 1996 by Samuel R. Delany
Introduction copyright 1996 by Ken James
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America 5 4 3 2 1
CIP data appear at the end of the book
"Wagner/Artaud" was first published by Ansatz Press (New York, 1988). Copyright 1988 by Samuel R. Delany.
"Aversion/Perversion/Diversion" was first published in Negotiating Lesbian and Gay Subjects, ed. Monica Dorenkamp and Richard Henke (New York and London: Routledge, 1995). "Shadows" was published in The Jewel-Hinged Jaw, by Samuel R. Delany (New York: Dragon Press, 1977). Copyright 1977 by Samuel R. Delany.
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For Henry Finder and Kwame Anthony Appiah
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Contents
Preface
ix
Extensions: An Introduction to the Longer Views of Samuel R. Delany
By Ken James
xiii
Wagner/Artaud: A Play of 19th and 20th Century Critical Fictions
1
Reading at Work, and Other Activities Frowned on by Authority A Reading of Donna Haraway's "Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s"
87
Aversion/Perversion/Diversion
119
Shadow and Ash
144
Atlantis Rose... Some Notes on Hart Crane
174
Appendix: Shadows
251
Index
325
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Preface
In a critical epoch that has privileged, for twenty years or more, difference, decantering, discontinuity, diversity, and pluralism over the elder gods of Unity, Totality, and Mastery, so much American nonfiction still finds itself attempting to appease those elder gods and their former conventions. Those of us who read regularly in criticism often find "books" whose "chapters" are, it's clear once we read two, three, or four of them, disconnected occasional essays. Often the "Introduction" that claims the remainder of the study will not attempt to negotiate its topic with systematic rigor actually introduces a collection of considerations simply of different topics. At the editorial level, forces (usually called "commercial"though sometimes even more mystified than that) militate to present collections and chrestomathies as concentrated studies.
The fiction writer is used to the same forces at work in the contouring of books: "Novels sell better than collections of short stories," we are told. "It's a truism of almost any fictive practicemysteries, westerns, science fiction, or naturalistic fiction."
Most of my life my own preferred field has been science fiction; and because that field fosters so many series stories sharing characters and backgrounds, publishers and editors for many years took such stories and put them in books they called "novels," while renaming the individual stories "chapters"largely at the behest of those forces.
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