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Discourses of Autobiographical Desires: Samuel Delany's Nevèrÿon Series
- Biography
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 30, Number 1, Winter 2007
- pp. 48-60
- 10.1353/bio.2007.0022
- Article
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Science fiction writer, intellectual, and memoirist Samuel Delany reconfigures cultural narratives of sexuality. His science fiction fantasy series Nevèr¨yon and his cultural criticism Times Square Red/Times Square Blue create an intertextual echo. The autobiographical intertextuality helps Delany to foreground a desiring gay fetishistic sexual subject as acceptable and normal, a narrative speech act that changes the terms of narrative and sexuality.