Femenist reading of IV

[rich]

more like a Semenist reading in my book

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 3:36 PM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Perhaps nothing Pynchon has written to date tells us more about how he
> developed as an author than his Introduction to the Slow Learner
> stories. The stories are, as P admits, novice attempts that expose his
> juvenile prejudices and influences. With the exception of "The Secret
> Integration", an apprentice's tale that P admits suffers from his
> abuse of the surreal, a problem compounded by his then semi-conscious
> though largely latent and unexamined racist views of Black Americans,
> is P first turn toward seeing the Other. Lot49 explores and GR is a
> far more mature and complex product of this turn. Of course P
> continues to develop a more mature view of the Other in his more
> mature works. After VL was published  critics gave serious
> consideration to the feminist P. M&D, AGTD can be read as feminist
> works. And IV, P's last published work, is is most feminist to date.
>
>
>
> This dynamic — of eroticized male exclusion from, and investment in,
> female relationships — was the defining feature of a handful of
> women-in-prison films from the 1970s. In these movies, female
> sisterhood, generally in the face of oppression, is itself fetishized
> — feminism is turned into a kind of masochistic male wet dream. How
> this unlikely cathexis occurred, and how it functioned, is the subject
> of this essay.
> http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/61/61womeninprison.html
>
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