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Atlantis: Three Tales
Full title: | Atlantis: Three Tales |
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ISBN: | 9780819563125 |
ISBN 10: | 0819563129 |
Authors: | |
Publisher: | Wesleyan University Press |
Edition: | 1st |
Num. pages: | 224 |
Binding: | Paperback |
Language: | en |
Published on: | 1995 |
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Synopsis
In these stories, Samuel R. Delany explores the intricate interdependencies of memory, experience, and self. We begin with Atlantis: Model 1924, a short novel that tells of a young African-American's first six months in 1920s New York, and of the sharp contrast between his experiences there and his childhood and adolescence in North Carolina. In a fictive meditation on the artist's childhood, "Erik, Gwen, and D.H. Lawrence's Esthetic of Unrectified Feeling" traces the development of a formalist esthetic even as it shows the place of transgression within that very esthetic. "Citre et Trans" tells of a black American writer's sojourn in Greece in the mid-1960s.