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Clean: Death and Desire in Samuel R. Delany's Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand

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Robert F. Reid-Pharr
American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 389–411.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1266099
Published: 01 June 2011
..., move ahead to the past. Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand treats in its three sections the ill-fated­ love affair of Rat Korga and Marq Dyeth. In the first section we are introduced to Death and Desire in Stars in My Pocket 393 Korga, an impressively tall...
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Speculative Fictions of Slavery

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Madhu Dubey
American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 779–805.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-045
Published: 01 December 2010
... of neurological intervention: Korga, an impoverished human male who has long been viewed as a burden to his society, is subjected to Radical Anxiety Termination, a synapse-jamming pro- cedure that programs him to be a contented and docile slave. Collo- quially known as “rats” (an acronym...
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Unsentimental Historicizing: The Neo-Slave Narrative Tradition and the Refusal of Feeling

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Gabriella Friedman
American Literature (2021) 93 (1): 115–143.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8878542
Published: 01 March 2021
... Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand ( 1984 )—a science fiction novel that transposes the conventions of neo-slave narratives to an unexpected interstellar context—appears unconcerned with the interiority of its enslaved character, Rat Korga. Finally, and perhaps most surprisingly, Morrison’s...
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