MDDM Ch. 4 "Bongo" and the benign stereotype

[lorentzen-nicklaus]

is jennifer lopez allowed to use the n-word?


Paul Mackin schrieb:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "jbor" <jbor at bigpond.com>
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> >leads me to
> > wonder whether Pynchon is perhaps deliberately flouting the trends towards
> > political correctness (vis a vis stereotyping in particular) which have
> > predominated in the last twenty years or more.
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> The question that come to mind is WHY is he flouting political correctness
> and HOW  we readers find ourselves responding. Do we feel we are being
> admonished against the misuse of a new kind of technology of control?
> Language reform IS a technology of control Or (remember this is Pynchon) do
> we have here more of that sado-anarchism business Bloom was talking about?
> Pynchon CAN seem downright CRUEL (not particularly here but elsewhere) in
> handling "minorities."
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>         P.
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