Femenist reading of IV

[Mark Kohut]

About labor, yes, (as well as many other things). Marxist? He disses marx in Gr, I believe and AtD.....another too-narrowtivist, to coin an ugly word simply for effect here....

--- On Fri, 2/19/10, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Femenist reading of IV
> To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Friday, February 19, 2010, 9:40 AM
> Not Crumb but Stephanie Rothman. In
> the end, Feminist Film Theory,
> Exploitation Film Theory, is the skin. Pynchon dives
> deeper, into
> Critical Theory, plays with Semiotics and Psychoanalysis,
> but
> ultimately, as he notes in his Slow Learer Introduction, it
> is not
> race or gender or post-colonial Otherness that interests
> him, but
> Vlass. So a Marxist reading is most fruitful. It's about
> Labor.
> 
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Robin Landseadel
> <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
> wrote:
> > Have to say i more or less agree with "He Who Would Be
> Alice."
> >
> > "Inherent Vice" is just overloaded with feminist
> markers—Ida Lupino and the
> > "Pussy Eater's Special" among others—little subplots
> that actively address
> > feminist themes. Of course there is a fair bit of Russ
> Meyer in the mix in
> > Vineland and to a lesser but similar extent, in IV.
> It's a little hard to
> > get these two particular conceptual frameworks to jibe
> together in a single
> > mind, but there you are.
> >
> > Not that I'm an Anti-Semenist, mind you.
> >
> > Next up: Feminist readings of R. Crumb . . .
> >
> > On Feb 18, 2010, at 7:29 PM, alice wellintown wrote:
> >
> >> Well, you have to dive a little deeper into that
> muff. This stuff
> >> ain't floating on the surface.
> >>
> >> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 9:21 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> 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  . . .
> >
> >>> http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/61/61womeninprison.html
> >
>