Men's Writer?

Scott Allen E7E4ALL at TOE.TOWSON.EDU
Fri May 13 14:22:08 CDT 1994


I don't think your friend would have made the statement about Pynchon as
New Wave Hemingway if she'd read _Lot 49_ first, rather than _GR_.  Most
feminists I know consider _Lot 49_ one of the foundational and even
"canonical" books for studies in women's issues as portrayed in AmLit.
I think much the same could be said for _V._.  Since _GR_ is as much about
mysticism and oppression and faith as abstraction and technology and
paranoia, if it *is* a men's book, that doesn't leave too many subjects
for whatever she would consider a women's book.



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