Date of Award
5-2025
Document Type
Open Access Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
English
First Advisor
Teagan Bradway
Abstract
Samuel Delany began drafting Hogg in March of 1969 and worked on it intermittently before completing the novel in October of 1973.1 Yet Hogg remained unpublished until 1995 before finally seeing the light of day “during the ‘transgressive turn’ in American literature” (Mitchell 1). As such, the novel is historically situated along what Jonathan Mitchell calls a “dual temporality,” which “allows the novel to be located as an intervention in two key moments in America’s LGBT+ history: first, the developments in identity politics coming out of the socio-political cultural shifts of the 1960s; and, second, the post-AIDS awareness 1990s”.
Recommended Citation
Thornton, Brian, "Transgressive fiction and the problem of negative affect: a case study of Samuel Delany’s Hogg" (2025). Master's Theses. 194.
https://digitalcommons.cortland.edu/theses/194
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