feminized Vineland

[Teen Age Riot]

At 03:17 PM 5/29/96 PST, MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu wrote:
>I strongly agree, and that's why I think that in VINELAND TP develops a very 
>different textual surface for his prose. and a different trajectory for his
plot: Much 
>less phallic, less linear, less projectile oriented, and much
more--female--if that 
>other suff is--male.  I think it's his mea culpa for all that boy
talk--male perceptions, 
>male concerns--in the previous work.  And IMO he gets it right.

A turn from GR, maybe, but I think Pynchon at least took a stab at feminine
issues earlier, with V.  If GR can be considered phallic, then V has, if not
a vagina-centricity, a womb metaphor at its base, a focus on
regression/convergence to the womb.
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