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Motion of Light in Water : Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village by Samuel R. Delany (2004, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Minnesota Press
ISBN-10081664523X
ISBN-139780816645237
eBay Product ID (ePID)12038671803
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Book TitleMotion of Light in Water : Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village
Number of Pages584 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral, American / General, Lgbt Studies / Gay Studies, Customs & Traditions, Sociology / Urban
Publication Year2004
GenreLiterary Criticism, Social Science
AuthorSamuel R. Delany
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.5 in
Item Weight23.5 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width5.9 in
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LCCN2003-025332
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Reviews"A very moving, intensely fascinating literary biography from an extraordinary writer. Thoroughly admirable candor and luminous stylistic precision; the artist as a young man and a memorable picture of an age."--William Gibson "Absolutely central to any consideration of black manhood. Delany's vision of the necessity for total social and political transformation is revolutionary."--Hazel Carby " The Motion of Light in Water captures, as if in a time capsule, what it was like to be a young, gifted person of color coming to adulthood from roughly 1956 to 1966. Delany's experiences show us that the 'past' is never as simple or as safe as some would like to believe."-- American Literary History "The prose of The Motion of Light in Water often has the shimmering beauty of the title itself. This book is invaluable gay history."-- Inches Magazine
SynopsisWinner of the Hugo Award for Non-fiction The unexpurgated edition of the award-winning autobiography Born in New York 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 calls up this era of exploration and adventure as he details his development as a black gay writer in an open marriage, with tertiary walk-ons by Bob Dylan, Stokely Carmichael, W. H. Auden, and James Baldwin, and a panoply of brilliantly drawn secondary characters.
LC Classification NumberPS3554
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