A Sense of Wonder: Samuel R. Delany, Race, Identity, and Difference

by Jeffrey Allen Tucker

In-depth study places a major American writer in the African-American tradition. Samuel R. Delany is one of today's most interesting writers. African-American and gay, Delany crosses boundaries--generic (science fiction, memoir, theory, pornography) and academic (literary studies, cultural studies, African-American studies, gay and lesbian studies). Critics both black and white have read Delany as a writer who downplays his racial identity in order...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819566896
• ISBN13: 9780819566898
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher