On the Unspeakable
Delany, Desire, and the Tactic of Transgression
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5246152 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kirin Wachter-Grene (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 333-343 |
| Publication date | 2015-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African American Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1062-4783 • E-ISSN: 1945-6182 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/afa.2015.0032 |
| OpenAlex | W2175864640 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 9 |
In this article, I explore Samuel Delany's notoriously "unpublishable" novel Hogg through his conceptualization of "the unspeakable": ways of transgressive sexual being and knowing that are simultaneously pleasurable and political. In understanding Hogg as transgressive, I suggest its characters play with limits and boundaries to trouble, not transcend, structures of containment on both the right and the left. I suggest that reading transgression as a political tactic through the unspeakable reveals, among other critically advantageous concepts, why and how both the right and left attempt to delimit identities and what can and cannot be spoken of or written about
Aesthetics · Art · Literature · Marine transgression · Geology · Paleontology · Race, History, and American Society
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2017 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |