Return to Neveryeon
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- Synopsis
- In his four-volume series Return to Neveryeon, Hugo and Nebula award-winner Samuel R. Delany appropriated the conceits of sword-and-sorcery fantasy to explore his characteristic themes of language, power, gender, and the nature of civilization. Wesleyan University Press has reissued the long-unavailable Neveryeonvolumes in trade paperback.The eleven stories, novellas, and novels in Return to Neveryeon's four volumes chronicle a long-ago land on civilization's brink, perhaps in Asia or Africa, or even on the Mediterranean. Taken slave in childhood, Gorgik gains his freedom, leads a slave revolt, and becomes a minister of state, finally abolishing slavery. Ironically, however, he is sexually aroused by the iron slave collars of servitude. Does this contaminate his mission -- or intensify it? Presumably elaborated from an ancient text of unknown geographical origin, the stories are sunk in translators' and commentators' introductions and appendices, forming a richly comic frame.
- Copyright:
- 1994
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780819571915
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780819562784
- Publisher:
- Wesleyan University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 11/17/11
- Copyrighted By:
- Samuel R. Delany
- Adult content:
- Yes
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender, Social Studies
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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