FICTION: Samuel R. Delany’s Latest Erotic Novella, “Big Joe”, Explores Queer Love in a Trailer Park [NSFW].
In the gay erotica novella Big Joe, Samuel R. Delany explores the lives of four men who engage in many sexual exploits in and around a trailer park.
And while readers get to follow the erotic activities of the central characters, Uncle Shad, Uncle Tommy, Ligie and Big Joe, the work, of course, isn’t just about sex.
“When Delany writes erotica it is not meant to be shocking or ‘merely’ pornographic. As much as Delany is interested in arousal and intimacy he is profoundly engaged in the social aspects of sex: how it shapes infrastructures and power dynamics,” writes i-D.
