SLSL Intro, "almost, but not quite me..."

[Dave Monroe]

Pynchon does namecheck a preponderance of Jewish
authors (e.g., Bellow, Gold, Roth) in that "Intro." 
Again, Morris Dickstein, Leopards in the Temple: The
Transformation of American Fiction, 1945-1970
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2002 [1999]) ....

   "A more cosmopolitan America was coming into being,
a good deal more open to social differences yet
resistant to political dissent and social criticism. 
Outsider groups such as blacks, women, and Jews, even
working-class and rural Americans, having seen
something of the world, were not about to return to
the kitchen, the ghetto, or the menial jobs to which
they had been confined." (p. 3)

   "The arrival of these outsiders in the mainstream
of American society had a close parallel in the arts. 
Just as the needs of the economy opened professions
previously closed to Jews, the needs of a newly
cosmopolitan culture, born in the shadow of
unspeakable wartime carnage, opened up literature and
academic life to Jewish writers.  Specialists in
alienation, virtuosos of moral anguish, witnesses to
the pains and gains of assimilation, they had a timely
story to tell....  Black writers too had a tale to
tell ....  Thus began the stream of outsider figures
who would do more than anything else to define the
character of postwar writing ...." (p. 4)

--- Mutualcode at aol.com wrote:
> 
> In the meantime, I'm wondering, to what extent had
> the Jewish influences noted by this narrator dealt
> with The Holocaust by the time even of GR? ...

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