The Empty Child: Dystopian Innocence and Samuel Delany’s Hogg
This essay examines Samuel Delany’s novel, Hogg to interrogate the figure of the innocent child and the role of the family in America, especially in mid-century America. The essay contends that the novel, narrated by the unnamed eleven-year-old protagonist who details both his polymorphously pervers...
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| description | This essay examines Samuel Delany’s novel, Hogg to interrogate the figure of the innocent child and the role of the family in America, especially in mid-century America. The essay contends that the novel, narrated by the unnamed eleven-year-old protagonist who details both his polymorphously perverse sexual exploits as companion to the eponymous Hogg (outcast, murderer and rapist for hire) and acts also as chronicle of Hogg’s experiences over 72 hours, destabilizes the ideology of innocence that acts as a utopian foundation to America’s national understanding of itself as exceptional. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-b8682cd558f44b60b08d65278d6864922025-01-06T09:08:00ZengEuropean Association for American StudiesEuropean Journal of American Studies1991-93362017-01-0111310.4000/ejas.11775The Empty Child: Dystopian Innocence and Samuel Delany’s HoggJonathan MitchellThis essay examines Samuel Delany’s novel, Hogg to interrogate the figure of the innocent child and the role of the family in America, especially in mid-century America. The essay contends that the novel, narrated by the unnamed eleven-year-old protagonist who details both his polymorphously perverse sexual exploits as companion to the eponymous Hogg (outcast, murderer and rapist for hire) and acts also as chronicle of Hogg’s experiences over 72 hours, destabilizes the ideology of innocence that acts as a utopian foundation to America’s national understanding of itself as exceptional.https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/11775familyTheodore RooseveltSamuel DelanyHoggLGBT+ historychild sexuality |
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| title | The Empty Child: Dystopian Innocence and Samuel Delany’s Hogg |
| title_full | The Empty Child: Dystopian Innocence and Samuel Delany’s Hogg |
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| title_short | The Empty Child: Dystopian Innocence and Samuel Delany’s Hogg |
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| topic | family Theodore Roosevelt Samuel Delany Hogg LGBT+ history child sexuality |
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