Chetwynd / Freer / Maragos Thomas Pynchon, Sex, and Gender

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-0-8203-5399-9
Verlag: University of Georgia Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten, EPUB

Thomas Pynchon’s fiction has been considered masculinist, misogynist, phallocentric, and pornographic: its formal experimentation, irony, and ambiguity have been taken both to complicate such judgments and to be parts of the problem. To the present day, deep critical divisions persist as to whether Pynchon’s representations of women are sexist, feminist, or reflective of a more general misanthropy, whether his writing of sex is boorishly pornographic or effectually transgressive, whether queer identities are celebrated or mocked, and whether his departures from realist convention express masculinist elitism or critique the gendering of genre.

Thomas Pynchon, Sex, and Gender reframes these debates. As the first book-length investigation of Pynchon’s writing to put the topics of sex and gender at its core, it moves beyond binary debates about whether to see Pynchon as liberatory or conservative, instead examining how his preoccupation with sex and gender conditions his fiction’s whole worldview. The essays it contains, which cumulatively address all of Pynchon’s novels from V. (1963) to Bleeding Edge (2013), investigate such topics as the imbrication of gender and power, sexual abuse and the writing of sex, the gendering of violence, and the shifting representation of the family. Providing a wealth of new approaches to the centrality of sex and gender in Pynchon’s work, the collection opens up new avenues for Pynchon studies as a whole.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chetwynd, Ali

Freer, Joanna

Maragos, Georgios

Weitere Mitwirkende

Backman, Jennifer

Cook, Simon

Dalsgaard, Inger H.

Bourcier, Simon de

Flay, Catherine

Franco, Marie

Haynes, Doug

Herman, Luc

Hite, Molly

Kaltsas, Kostas

Kocela, Christopher P.

Krafft, John

McFadzean, Angus

Moss, Richard

Severs, Jeffrey

Über Autor(innen)

Freer, Joanna
JOANNA FREER is a lecturer in American literature at the University of Exeter. She is the author of Thomas Pynchon and American Counterculture and is currently an editor of the journal Orbit: A Journal of American Literature.

Chetwynd, Ali
ALI CHETWYND is an assistant professor and chair of the English Department at the American University of Iraq Sulaimani. His work has appeared in College Literature, English Studies, and Twentieth-Century Literature.

Herman, Luc
LUC HERMAN is a professor of English and narrative theory at the University of Antwerp. He is the coauthor of Handbook of Narrative Analysis with Bart Vervaeck and the coeditor of The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon with Inger Dalsgaard and Brian McHale.

Maragos, Georgios
GEORGIOS MARAGOS is an independent scholar from Athens, Greece. His work has appeared in Orbit: A Journal of American Literature.

Ali Chetwynd (Editor)

ALI CHETWYND is an assistant professor and chair of the English Department at the American University of Iraq Sulaimani. His work has appeared in
College Literature,
English Studies, and
Twentieth-Century Literature.


Joanna Freer (Editor)

JOANNA FREER is a lecturer in American literature at the University of Exeter. She is the author of
Thomas Pynchon and American Counterculture and is currently an editor of the journal
Orbit: A Journal of American Literature.


Georgios Maragos (Editor)

GEORGIOS MARAGOS is an independent scholar from Athens, Greece. His work has appeared in
Orbit: A Journal of American Literature.