Sanders, "The Politics of Literary Reinscription ..."

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Thu Apr 19 20:16:57 CDT 2001


Yeah, thanks again to Earl with the Pearl Monroe. I have
Sanders here. Where? I don't know is on third and perhaps
I'll find it tomorrow, but in the mean time, what is being
said about Marx? 
> 
> "Marx's analyses betray none of the
> pleasures that go with colonialism."
> ...as Pynchon says, quite pointedly in a famous GR passage, where he (and
> the narrative voice does appear to be Pynchon's at that point, many have
> agreed in our previous discussions here) chides Marx for leaving out the
> sexual element of the colonizers' program -- a point he develops in GR with
> Weissmann/Blicero's sexual relationship with Enzian, a relationship that's
> possible only because of the colonial power structure which gives
> Weissmann/Blicero acess to the boy in the first place and which gives W/B
> power over him and gives him prestige in the colonized subject's eyes.

What passage in GR? At one point, a  narrator calls Marx a
racist and chides Marx blah blah, is this what you are all
referring to? 

BTW, Voegelin has some very nasty names for Mr. Marx as
well.



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