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Born to Be Bron: Destiny and Destinerrance in Samuel R. Delany's Trouble on Triton

Born to Be Bron: Destiny and Destinerrance in Samuel R. Delany's Trouble on Triton

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Born to Be Bron: Destiny and Destinerrance in Samuel R. Delany's Trouble on Triton

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Born to Be Bron: Destiny and Destinerrance in Samuel R. Delany's Trouble on Triton

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Oakland: SF-TH Inc

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Science-fiction studies, 2009-11, Vol.36 (3), p.461-477

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English

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Oakland: SF-TH Inc

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Bron Helstrom, the protagonist of Samuel R. Delany's Trouble on Triton (1976), articulates an ideology of masculinity that is deeply at odds with his society and that his friend, Lawrence, labels a "logical perversion." Deploying Derrida's concept of destinerrance (the notion of arriving at the wrong place, or reaching the right place only by going...

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Born to Be Bron: Destiny and Destinerrance in Samuel R. Delany's Trouble on Triton

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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_222048970

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_222048970

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0091-7729

E-ISSN

2327-6207

DOI

10.1525/sfs.36.3.0461

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