The American Shore

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Samuel R. Delany. The American Shore

THE AMERICAN SHORE

Contents

Acknowledgments

The American Shore, Author’s Introduction

A Road along the Shore. An Introduction to The American Shore

1. The Pretext

2. The Refused Text

ANGOULEME1

3. The Context

4. The Diffused Text

5. Exotexts

Index

About the Author

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The Jewels of Aptor (1962)

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The American Shore employs systems and terminologies that Delany would not take up as thoroughly again, if at all (the concept of Inward and Outward Signifiers, the play of voices in science fiction, and other ideas more specific to “Angouleme,” such as the difference between the children’s and adults’ voices). His decision to keep some of the concepts and vocabulary of The American Shore within its pages only was a choice that further marks the text as more Derridean than Barthesian: Delany had no desire for the terminology to congeal around it the suggestion of a privileged method. Any end must encourage more beginning.

The final paragraph of The American Shore, which returns us to “Angouleme,” brings to my mind the final scene of a film that offers some of the clearest and most affecting cinematic treatments of basic structuralist ideas of language: François Truffaut’s L’Enfant sauvage (The Wild Child, 1970). The last words there are fitting ones for any endeavor of literary or social analysis, any engagement with multiplicities: “Tomorrow we’ll resume our lessons.”

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