It's About AMERICA!!!!!!!

[pynchonoid]

Read Pynchon as you want, Keith.  But, he remains an
American writer; I don't see how anybody can change
that unless he chooses to become an "American
expatriate writer".

In this particular instance in the Foreword, Pynchon
has chosen highly-charged buzz word from present-day
political and pop culture discourse -- "homeland" --
that, in addition to its own meanings (one of which is
its use in the Homeland Security apparatus that has
been erected in the US, to find out what books people
are reading, to detain people secretly for unlimited
periods, and so forth) directs attention to 9-11,
PATRIOT Act (which was, by the way apparently expanded
by the Senate in recent days), the aerial bombardment
of Afghanistan and Iraq, etc. "Homeland" brings all
its meanings to the party.

--- s~Z <keithsz at concentric.net> wrote:
> [...] the implications of the 
> assertion about Pynchon at the end.

pynchonoid:
> >>>Galling though it may be to admit, Pynchon
> writes, and
> we read, the foreword in May 2003, when, as Paul N
> and
> others note, "homeland" is a word that is strongly
> associated with the US (leaving Canada out and
> rejecting the chauvinistic use of "America") -- it's
> part of the buzz.  Pynchon writes for a US audience,
> primarily, too -- _1984_ with his foreword is
> currently for sale in bookstores only in the US,
> later
> this year in Britain (the other partner in the
> so-called "coalition" of countries willing to kill
> innocent people in Iraq in order to satisfy the
> blood
> lust of Bush and some of his fellow US residents).
> Pynchon is an "American" (US) writer, too, everytime
> he sits down to write anything, unavoidably.<<<


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