# The American Shore

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- Book: [The American Shore](https://www.bookquiver.com/samuel-r-delany/the-american-shore) ([The American Shore.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/samuel-r-delany/the-american-shore.md))
- Authors: [Samuel R. Delany](https://www.bookquiver.com/samuel-r-delany)
- Publisher: gateway
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-05-7511-930-7
- Published: 2015-11-26
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

In the course of his considerations, Samuel R. Delany poses a theory of discourse and explores how the reading of various rhetorical turns, some science fictional, some not, is shifted by science fictional understanding.