Shorter Views: Queer Thoughts & the Politics of the Paraliterary

Contents

Contents Preface: On Creativity and Academic Writing vii Part One: Some Queer Thoughts 1 The Rhetoric of Sex/The Discourse of Desire 3 2 Street Talk/Straight Talk 41 3 On the Unspeakable 58 4 Coming/Out 67 5 A Bend in the Road 98 6 The "Gay" Writer/ "Gay Writing" . . . ? 111 7 The Black Leather in Color Interview 115 8 The Thomas L. Long Interview 123 Part Two: The Politics of the Paraliterary 9 Neither the First Word nor the Last on Deconstruction, Structuralism, Poststructuralism, and Semiotics for SF Readers 141 10 The Para'doxa Interview: Inside and Outside the Canon 186 11 The Politics of Paraliterary Criticism 218 12 Zelazny/Varley/Gibson—and Quality 271 13 Pornography and Censorship 292 14 The Making of Hogg 298 15 The Phil Leggiere Interview: Reading TheMad Man 311 16 The Second Science-Fiction Studies Interview: Of Trouble on Triton and Other Matters 315 Part Three: Some Writing/Some Writers 17 Antonia Byatt's Possession: A Romance 353 18 Neil Gaiman, I, II, and III 359 19 A Tribute toJudith Merril 373 20 Michael Perkins's Evil Companions 377 21 Now It's Time for Dale Peck 384 22 Othello in Brooklyn 388 23 A Prefatory Notice to Vincent Czyz's Adrift in a Vanishing City 396 24 Under the Volcano with Susan Sontag 399 25 Some Remarks on Narrative and Technology or: Poetry and Truth 408 Appendix: Some Notes for the Intermediate and Advanced Creative Writing Student 433 Index 461 ...