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Everybody's America: Thomas Pynchon, Race, and the Cultures of Postmodernism: Studies in Major Literary Authors

Autor David Witzling
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Everybody’s America reassesses Pynchon’s literary career in order to explain the central role played by the racialization of American culture in the postmodernist deconstruction of subjectivity and literary authority and in the crisis in white liberal culture. It charts the evolution of both these cultural transformations from Pynchon’s early short stories, composed in the late 1950s, through Gravity’s Rainbow, published in 1973. This book demonstrates that Pynchon deploys techniques associated with the decentering of the linguistic sign and the fragmentation of narrative in order to work through the anxieties of white male subjects in their encounter with racial otherness. It also charts Pynchon’s attention to non-white and non-Euro-American voices and cultural forms, which imply an awareness of and interest in processes of transculturation occurring both within U.S. borders and between the U.S. and the Third World. In these ways, his novels attempt to acknowledge the implicit racism in many elements of white American culture and to grapple with the psychological and sociopolitical effects of that racism on both white and black Americans. The argument of Everybody’s America, however, also considers the limits of Pynchon’s implicit commitment to hybridity as a social ideal, identifying attitudes expressed in his work that suggest a residual attraction to the mainstream liberalism of the fifties and early sixties. Pynchon’s fiction dramatizes the conflict between the discourses and values of such liberalism and those of an emergent multiculturalist ethos that names and valorizes social difference and hybridity. In identifying the competition between residual liberalism and an emergent multiculturalism, Everybody’s America makes its contribution to the broader understanding of postmodern culture.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415883887
ISBN-10: 0415883881
Pagini: 236
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Studies in Major Literary Authors

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: "Incompatibilities have come to bed": Jazz, Language, and Cultural Alienation in V. and its Beat Influences
Chapter Two: "A matter of idle curiosity": Imperial History and the Authority of Whiteness in V.
Chapter Three: "The simplest kind of beginning:" The Problem of White Double Consciousness in Pynchon’s Work of the Mid-Sixties
Chapter Four: Transculturation and Liberalism in Gravity’s Rainbow: "Now everybody –"
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Notă biografică

David Witzling is anAssistant Professor at Manhattan College in Riverdale, NY

Recenzii

"Witzling reads texts well, but his special contribution lies in his grasp of contemporary theory and those conundrums of race in which the younger Pynchon's imagination was anchored in the 1950s and 1960s...this is an original contribution to knowledge of Pynchon and the role of race in American culture." Choice, January 2009

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Emphasizing the relationship between Pynchon’s formal experimentation and his interest in American and international race relations, this book argues that an ambivalent reaction to the emergence of identity politics and multiculturalism is central to Pynchon’s work and, more generally, to the advent of postmodernism in United States culture.