Atlantis : three tales / Samuel R. Delany.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Delany, Samuel R.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American men--Fiction.

African American men.

Bisexuality.

Bisexuality--Fiction.

American fiction--African American authors.

American fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Short stories.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered pages, 212 pages, 8 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm

Distribution:

Hanover : Published by University Press of New England.

Place of Publication:

[Middletown, Conn.] : Wesleyan University Press, 1995.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Atlantis: Model 1924

Erik, Gwen, and D.H. Lawrence's Esthetic of Unrectified Feeling

Citre et Trans.

Notes:

Book design and composition by John D. Berry.

Cover painting: The Voice of the City of New York Interpreted, 1920-22: The White Way I, by Joseph Stella.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

0819552836

OCLC:

31815227