{"id":1021,"date":"2020-05-27T19:15:23","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T19:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.americanstudies.ro\/?p=1021"},"modified":"2020-05-27T19:19:05","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T19:19:05","slug":"the-political-imagination-of-thomas-pynchons-later-novels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.americanstudies.ro\/ro\/the-political-imagination-of-thomas-pynchons-later-novels\/","title":{"rendered":"The Political Imagination of Thomas Pynchon\u2019s Later Novels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><em>by Diana Benea<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons aligncenter is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link no-border-radius\" href=\"https:\/\/arsdocendi.ro\/t_carte.php?id_carte=253\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">More<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-medium-font-size\">This book is an attempt to illuminate the ways in which Thomas Pynchon\u2019s later novels \u2013 <em>Vineland<\/em> (1990), <em>Mason &amp; Dixon<\/em> (1997), <em>Against the Day<\/em> (2006), <em>Inherent Vice<\/em> (2009), and <em>Bleeding Edge<\/em> (2013) \u2013 configure a vibrant political imagination, which marks a significant departure from the paranoid and entropic vision of his earlier (high postmodernist) works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"> The more recent novels invite reflection on a series of issues invested with a significant ethical and political dimension, committing themselves to a vocabulary that foregrounds the values of community, social justice, relationality, and interdependence. By placing this corpus in conversation with influential works in contemporary (political) philosophy &#8212; in particular, late Foucault and late Derrida &#8212; this study argues that the subtle shift of sensibility at the heart of Pynchon\u2019s later fiction is most visible in its re-envisioning of the relation of the self to the Other in more hospitable terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Reviewed by Scott McClintock for <em>Orbit: A Journal of American Literature<\/em> 7.1 (2019), Open Library of Humanities, UK.&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.16995\/orbit.1810\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.16995\/orbit.1810<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><br>Reviewed by Ali Chetwynd, \u201cLate Pynchon Theorized: A Review of Diana Benea, <em>The Political Imagination of Thomas Pynchon\u2019s Later Novels<\/em>, and Sean Carswell, <em>Occupy Pynchon: Politics after<\/em> Gravity\u2019s Rainbow.\u201d <em>American, British and Canadian Studies<\/em>, Vol. 33 (2019): 233-243.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book presents a broad spectrum of studies focusing on fiction, graphic narratives, photography, online forums and interviews.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanstudies.ro\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanstudies.ro\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanstudies.ro\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanstudies.ro\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanstudies.ro\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanstudies.ro\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanstudies.ro\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanstudies.ro\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanstudies.ro\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanstudies.ro\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}