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  • Samuel R. Delany
    Samuel R. Delany

    Dhalgren (1975) is the story of a young bisexual man searching for identity in a large decaying city. In Triton (1976; later retitled Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia), Delany uses the protagonist, Bron Helstrom, to examine gender and sexual identity and to question whether…

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    Dhalgren (1975) is the story of a young bisexual man searching for identity in a large decaying city. In Triton (1976; later retitled Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia), Delany uses the protagonist, Bron Helstrom, to examine gender and sexual identity and to question whether…

    Read More