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Everybody's America Thomas Pynchon, Race, and the Cultures of Postmodernism
By David Witzling
Copyright 2008
236 Pages
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Routledge
236 Pages
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Routledge
176 Pages
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Routledge
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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... Read more
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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
Biography
David Witzling is anAssistant Professor at Manhattan College in Riverdale, NY
"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
