Foucault’s Heterotopia in Delany’s Neveryon Cycle
This article analyzes the four books of Samuel R. Delany’s Neveryon cycle: Tales of Neveryon (1979), Neveryona, or: The Tale of Signs and Cities (1983), Flight from Neveryon (1985) and Return to Neveryon (1987). Michel Foucault’s concepts of heterotopia, genealogy, biopolitics and reverse discourse are used to show how a sign of slavery in the …
