Atlantis
Three Tales
By Samuel R. Delany

Genre: Science Fiction
Hardcover
212 pages
Published by University Press of New England
Published April 1995
ISBN: 978-0-8195-5283-9
signed by Author

Product Information
three novellas that chronicle the experience of the African American writer in the 20th century. The longest story, "Atlantis: Model 1924," focuses on the impressions of a 17-year-old African American who travels from North Carolina to New York to join his family. Using a mysterious unnamed character who vanishes from a rowboat beneath the Brooklyn Bridge, Delany draws a variety of parallels between the mythic aspects of the Big Apple and the legendary city under the sea, framing the young man's perspective against the achievements of such early 20th-century black luminaries as Paul Robeson, Hart Crane and Jean Toomer. In "Erik, Gwen, and D.H. Lawrence's Esthetic of Unrectified Feeling," Delany paints a portrait of the black artist as a young man, musing on the use of music lessons, art classes and New York private schools to help instill and sustain the instinct to create. "Citre et Trans" leans more heavily on plot and narrative and deals, albeit with more style and seriousness, with some of the themes of the author's recently published Hogg. Here, a bisexual African American writer, living in Greece in the mid-1960s, must confront the emotional effects of rape after his roommate picks up a pair of Greek sailors.

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