Pynchon's California

[Dave Monroe]

Pynchon's California, ALA, San Francisco, May 27-30, 2010. Proposals
due by Janary 25, 10.
full name / name of organization:
John Miller
contact email:
jmiller at nu.edu
cfp categories:
american
general_announcements
twentieth_century_and_beyond

Pynchon’s California

With the publication of Inherent Vice (2009) it becomes possible to
speak of Thomas Pynchon’s “California novels.” Unlike Pynchon’s
pagemonsters, which are set around global historical crises, The
Crying of Lot 49, Vineland, and Inherent Vice are set in California in
the present or recent past; they are also shorter and somewhat more
traditionally plotted, and two revolve around Pynchon’s only female
protagonists. Two of his longer, globetrotting works, Gravity’s
Rainbow and Against the Day, also wind up in California. Papers are
invited for this proposed panel on any aspect of Pynchon’s “California
novels” or his use of California as a setting in his writing.

Submit brief proposal (200-300 words) for a 20 minute paper, along
with a brief bio or c.v. by January 25, 2010 to jmiller at nu.edu.

    * By web submission at 12/23/2009 - 05:51

Department of English
University of Pennsylvania
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