Shorter Views: Queer Thoughts & the Politics of the Paraliterary

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Nliorler Views Other Books by the Author Fiction The Jewels of Aptor (1962) The Fall of the Towers: Out of the Dead City (formerly Captives of the Flame, 1963) The Towers of Toron (1964) City of a Thousand Suns (1965) The Ballad of Beta-2 (1965) Empire Star (1966) Babel-17 (1966) The Einstein Intersection (1967) Nova (1968) Driftglass (1969) Equinox (formerly The Tides of Lust, 1973) Dhalgren (1975) Trouble on Triton (formerly Triton, 1976) Return to Neveryon: Tales of Neveryon (1979) Neveryona (1982) Flight from Neveryon (1985) Return to Neveryon (formerly The Bridge of Lost Desire, 1987) Distant Stars (1981) Stars in MyPockets Like Grains of Sand (1984) Driftglass/Starshards (collected stories: 1993) They Flyat Ciron (1993) The Mad Man (1994) H°gg (1995) Atlantis: Three Tales (1995) Graphic Novels Empire Star (1982) Bread & Wine (1999) Nonfiction TheJewel-HingedJaw (1977) The American Shore (1978) Heavenly Breakfast (1979) Starboard Wine (1984) The Motion of Light in Water (1988) Wagner/Artaud (1988) The Straits of Messina (1990) Silent Interviews (1994) Longer Views(1996) Times Square Red, Times Square Blue (1999) Queer Thoughts & The Politics of the Paraliterary Samuel R. Delany Wesleyan University Press Published byUniversity Press of NewEngland • Hanover and London jjJioriter Views Wesleyan University Press Published by UniversityPress of New England, Hanover, NH 03755© 1999 by Samuel R.Delany All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 5 4 3 2 1 CIP data appear at the end of the book For Patrick Merla & Marc Shell ISBN 978-0-8195-6369-9 The following works in this collection were previouslypublished: "The Rhetoric of Sex/The Discourse of Desire" was initially delivered as a lecture at MIT; it first appeared in print in Heterotopias: The Body Politic, ed. Tobin Siebers, Ann Arbor: University of MichiganPress, 1995. "Street Talk/Straight Talk" appeared in Difference, eds. Naomi Shor & Elizabeth Weed, special issue on Queer Theory: Lesbian and GaySexualities,guest edited by Teresa de Lauretis, vol. 3, summer 1991, Providence. "On the Unspeakable" first appeared in Everyday Life, eds. George and Chris Tysh, Detroit, 1987; subsequently it appeared in Avant Pop: Fiction for a Daydreaming Nation, ed. Larry McGaffery, Fiction Collective-2, Boulder, Colorado, 1993. "Coming/Out" appeared first, in slightly different form, in Boys Like Us, edited by Patrick Merla, New York: Avon Books, 1997. "A Bend in the Road" first appeared in the YaleJournal of Criticism, eds. Esther da Costa et al, vol. 7, no. i, spring 1994; New Haven. "The 'Gay' Writer/'Gay Writing' . . . ?" first appeared in the AWPJournal, 1993. "The Black Leather in Color Interview" first appeared in Black Leather in Color, edited by Antoinette, LidellJackson, and S. Guy Giumento, no. 3, fall 1994, New York City. continued onpage 458 ...