David Witzling

Everybody's America

Thomas Pynchon, Race, and the Cultures of Postmodernism

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9780415883887
• ISBN-10: 0415883881
• Artikelnr.: 54572860

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Permissions
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