On Tue, 22 Apr 1997 15:00:37 -0400 Andrea L. Klein wrote:
> From: Andrea L. Klein <alklein@WESLEYAN.EDU>
> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 15:00:37 -0400
> Subject: Re: what students read and what should we teach?
> To: FEMINISTSF@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU
>
> On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, farah mendlesohn wrote:
>
> > The American City, I set a passage from Sarah and Elizabeth
> > Delany's Having Our Say. The class positively glowed... they
loved
> > the extract, both male and female students and have all bounced
off
> > to read more, and this despite the strong feminism that comes
from
> > both women in their different ways. Being told that they were
related
> > to Samuel Delany, whose short story they read the week before,
sent
> > some of them back to that. Sometimes it can really work.
>
> I love Sadie and Bessie Delany too. _Having Our Say_ is
beautifully
> done, mostly because it paints these women so fantastically.
> I had no idea they were related to Samuel Delany. How so?
>
> Andrea Klein
They are his great aunts. Their brother Sam (the underdaker) was
Samuel Delany's grandfather I think. I was rather suspcious when I
read the book because Delany is not that common a name and the
location was right, so I asked him to confirm and he did. Although I
am not sure that he was too chuffed to be asked about his aunts'
book rather than his own at an sf convention.
farah
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