Memory's Guilted Cage: Delany's Dhalgren and Gibson's Pattern Recognition.
The article argues that the formation of Middle America's national narrative is predicated on its repression of guilt about its racial history by examining Samuel Delany's "Dhalgren" and William Gibson's "Pattern Recognition." Based on Delany's writing, the past, which includes a space of both indiv...
| Publicado en: | English Studies in Canada Vol. 32; no. 1; pp. 77 - 105 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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English Studies in Canada
Mar2006
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| Sumario: | The article argues that the formation of Middle America's national narrative is predicated on its repression of guilt about its racial history by examining Samuel Delany's "Dhalgren" and William Gibson's "Pattern Recognition." Based on Delany's writing, the past, which includes a space of both individual neuroses and communal guilt, is remembered as part of Middle America's attachment to and need for the other. For Gibson, the past ceases to exist as an object of study. |
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