Michael Berube ...

[Dave Monroe]

Seems relevant here ...

Berube, Michael.  Marginal Forces/Cultural Centers: Tolson, Pynchon,
    and the Politics of the Canon.   Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1992.

Anyone here read this?  Any comments?  I'd again mention Ishmael Reed as an
African-American author perhaps of particular interest to Pynchon fans as
well, see esp. his Mumbo Jumbo, cf. Gravity's Rainbow, with which it was
contemporary ...

Paul Mackin wrote:

> Hope The Negro is appreciating all the attention he's getting here.
>
> I'm tempted to refer it all to my good friend who happens to be both a
> Pynchon fan and an African American. Many years ago he confided (actullly
> complained) to me that he'd never met another of his ethnicity who'd read
> Pynchon. I told him the same was true for me. This was obviously before
> I'd come upon the p-list. Oh sure lots of people know the name. But it
> ends up they're confusing him with someone else.
>
>                         P.