Innocent by Contamination
Ethnicity and Technicity in Delany's Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5246742 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas Foster (0000-0001-6129-5955, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 239-256 |
| 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.2015.0033 |
| OpenAlex | W2175727263 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 12 |
This essay analyzes the various ways in which Samuel Delany's Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand (1984) dramatizes "the notion of a fragmented subject as a 'natural' condition" or as a principle of futuristic, social world-building. The essay argues that Stars represents one of Delany's most direct explorations of the relation between poststructuralist theory and the politics of race, gender, sexuality, and nonnormative family formations. In the novel's futuristic context, this relation takes the form of a dialogue between ethnicity and technicity, an intersectional concept of race and its mediation by new technologies, that produces an alternative model for cyberpunk science fiction
Archaeology · Art · Astronomy · Biology · Contamination · Ethnic group · Physics · Sociology · Stars · Anthropology · Crime and Detective Fiction Studies · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · History · Modern American Literature Studies · Ecology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |