Abstract
In his recent review of Donna Haraway's Simians, Cyborgs, and Women and Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science, African-American science fiction writer Samuel R. Delany raises concerns that are very much at the heart of ongoing critical debates about American literary canons and their respective histories. To the extent that those debates are territorial disputes or border wars intent on remapping academic terrain in ways that cede more territory to writers marginalized by gender, sexual preference, race, or all of those at the same time, Delany's comments on Haraway's inquiries into the politics of scientific representation and her attempts at remapping the nature/culture borderlands merit the attention of those of us (whoever we may be) interested in reconfiguring the shape and dimensions of American literary history. Writes Delany:
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