Thomas Pynchon and American Counterculture- Joanna Freer, University of Sussex-CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS-9781107429710
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Thomas Pynchon and American Counterculture- Joanna Freer, University of Sussex
Thomas Pynchon and American Counterculture employs the revolutionary
sixties as a lens through which to view the anarchist politics of
Pynchon's novels. Joanna Freer identifies and elucidates Pynchon's
commentaries on such groups as the Beats, the New Left and the Black
Panther Party and on such movements as the psychedelic movement and the
women's movement, drawing out points of critique to build a picture of a
complex countercultural sensibility at work in Pynchon's fiction. In
emphasising the subtleties of Pynchon's responses to counterculture,
Freer clarifies his importance as an intellectually rigorous political
philosopher. She further suggests that, like the graffiti in Gravity's
Rainbow, Pynchon creates texts that are 'revealed in order to be thought
about, expanded on, translated into action by the people', his early
attraction to core countercultural values growing into a conscious,
politically motivated writing project that reaches its most mature
expression in Against the Day.
Book | |
ISBN | 9781107429710 |
PAGES | 220 |
PUBLISHER | CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pages | 220 |
Binding | PAPERBACK |
Edition | SEPTEMBER 2016 |
Language | ENGLISH |
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