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Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Language is the way humans deal with past, present, and future possibilities, as well as the subset called the probable. This is where Samuel Delany finds his justification for the writing life. Since the 1960s, occurrences such as Sputnik, school desegregation, and the advent of AIDS have given Delany, as a gay man, as a Black man, access to certain truths and facts he could write about, and the language--sometimes fiction, sometimes nonfiction--in...
Author
Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Five substantial letters written from 1989 to 1991 bring readers into conversation with Hugo and Nebula Award winning-author Samuel Delany. With engaging prose, Delany shares details about his work, his relationships, and the thoughts he had while living in Amherst and teaching as a professor at the UMASS campus just outside of town, in contrast to the more chaotic life of New York City. Along with commentary on his own work and the work of other...
Author
Publisher
Arbor House/William Morrow
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
City's black ghetto Harlem at the start of World War II, Samuel R. Delany married white poet Marilyn Hacker right out of high school. The interracial couple moved into the city's new bohemian quarter, the Lower East Side, in summer 1961. Through the decade's opening years, new art, new sexual practices, new music, and new political awareness burgeoned among the crowded streets and cheap railroad apartments. Beautifully, vividly, insightfully, Delany...
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Series
Milford series. Popular writers of today volume 10
Publisher
Borgo Press
Pub. Date
1977
Language
English
Author
Series
Starmont reader's guide volume 10
Publisher
Starmont House
Pub. Date
[c1982]
Language
English
Author
Series
Contributions in Afro-American and African studies volume no. 106
Publisher
Greenwood Press
Pub. Date
1987
Language
English
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