... formations” (21). In Delany’s novel, acts of religion-making from below catalyze the creation of new communities opposed to a theopolitical universe licensing human bondage. ³ In one of a series of six essays written for The Anglo-African Magazine (1859–60) advocating the collective...

...This chapter revisits a textual crux in the history of sexuality studies: Joan Scott’s influential reading of Samuel R. Delany’s memoir, The Motion of Light in Water in her 1991 essay “The Evidence of Experience.” Scott’s essay articulates a powerful critique of traditional empiricism...

...The third chapter develops a sense of the commune by turning to Delany’s 1978 memoir of dwelling in a short-lived commune on Manhattan’s Lower East Side Heavenly Breakfast: An Essay on the Winter of Love. Heavenly Breakfast was a commune and band that came together in an apartment...

..., the Texas borderlands, and on the eastern coast of Africa. From Martin Delany’s The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States (1852) and Principia of Ethnology (1879) to Sutton Griggs’s Imperium in Imperio...

...The central claim of this chapter is that Martin R. Delany’s political thought emerged as a counterpoint to two developments in Northern states between 1830 and the mid-1850s. First, these states were disenfranchising their free African American population as they were extending the franchise...

...Race, Time, and Utopia. William M. Paris, Oxford University Press. © Oxford University Press 2025. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197698860.003.0004 This chapter turns to the problem of inclusion and exclusion as exemplified by the black nationalism of Martin Delany and Marcus Garvey...

... Beats have received less attention. This chapter rectifies that neglect through readings of selected SF texts such as Fritz Leiber’s “The Beat Cluster” (1961) and Samuel R. Delany’s Babel-17 (1966). Bolshevik Revolution Communism Countercultures Ross Andrew Stites Richard...

...Gerry Canavan, in “Far Beyond the Star Pit: Samuel R. Delany,” approaches the “Far Beyond the Stars” episode of DS9 as a frame for analyzing Delany’s own experiences in science fiction by focusing most directly on Delany’s early novella “The Star Pit” as an allegory for life under...

... Society Delany Samuel R diversity ethnic diversity nonwhites people of color Thomas Sheree R Butler Octavia erasure indigenous peoples race and gender racism white people Wrede Patricia C marginalization antiracist discrimination gender Larbalestier Justine Merrick Helen whiteness...

... an independence from human thought or perception. Authors such as Joanna Russ, Damon Knight, Samuel Delany and Kim Stanley Robinson are used to develop this argument. Aldiss Brian Bailey J O Gernsback Hugo Kornbluth C M Pohl Frederik Westfahl Gary Zug effect Adorno Theodor Ballard J G Baudrillard Jean...

...This chapter explores the association between Atlantic fetishes and American spiritualisms. This association emerges glancingly in Marx’s Capital and more substantively in the writing of blacks in the diaspora, particularly Martin Delany’s magazine writings in the late 1850s. Via...

...This chapter considers Samuel Delany’s contention in “Pornography and Censorship” that censorship of representations of the suffering and pleasures of human bodies is directly related to the practice of political torture. Arguing that a humanist inquiry into censorship cuts to the basic question...

...This chapter considers the historiographic philosophies of science fiction writer and memoirist Samuel Delany and documentary filmmaker Ross McElwee, especially their concern with the relation between fictional and factual accounts of the past. This chapter explores how their work productively...

...Chapter 4 discusses the way in which time travel fictions manipulate the narratological pairing of fabula (underlying story material) and sjuzhet (reorganization of story material in plot). Focusing chiefly on Samuel R. Delany's novella Empire Star...

... a political transformation characterized by reinventing basic social bonds and affects. Michel Foucault’s reflections on “the homosexual mode of life” and Samuel Delany’s analysis of the encounters created by casual sex in the porn theaters of Times Square both shed light on some of the most innovative...

... considered to have a literary veil obscuring the real work of political protest and activism. The article analyzes the works of William Wells Brown, Martin Delany, and William Grimes in the context of African American literary and cultural theory. abolition of slavery activism African American community...

... the Civil War and Reconstruction ” Elihu Embree Martin Robinson Delany Benjamin Drew Fannie A. Fain Rebecca Harding Davis Booker T. Washington The lives of African Americans in southern and central Appalachia during and after slavery, as well as the response of the region’s whites to blacks, slavery...

... to set down his opinions—briefly, and almost 30 years after her death—was Patrick Delany. On the Death of Mrs Johnson Delany Patrick Johnson Bridget Stella Esther Johnson Temple Sir William celibacy Dingley Rebecca Giffard Martha Ireland A Letter of Genteel and Moral Advice to a Young Lady...

... sympathy despair doubt hatred race respect sentiment temptation Douglass Fredrick hopelessness Hume David slave slavery sorrow soul nature pain pity pleasure Rousseau Jean Jacques class passion Delany Martin R contempt Smith Adam spectators Jefferson Thomas reason shame art...

... emigrationism are grounded in the modern idea of race. By the second half of the nineteenth century, Delany and Crummell have fully developed missionary and African regeneration plans as well as racial mythologies. Two black exegetes who oppose the notion that Africa's salvation needs to come from America...