Femenist reading of IV

[Mark Kohut]

Looks like I'm a stereotypical chauvinist of one...or two, if we count
Alice, that online hermaphrodite, so to speak, who has asserted but not argued (yet) the feminist reading.

I'm really a nice guy, a male feminist, I do believe. (I read at least one book with that title of close in sympathy back during the movement.) Proves nothing, as Ray Easton might always be saying. Smile. 

anyway, it has been a good discussion and clarification. 

--- On Fri, 2/19/10, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Femenist reading of IV
> To: "rich" <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
> Cc: kelber at mindspring.com, pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Friday, February 19, 2010, 3:05 PM
> I think Rich has it right here. 
> The true slaves in Pynchon's novels
> turn their oppression on its head by embracing the
> oppression and
> using that role as its opposite.  The female slave in
> MD owned by the
> Afrikaners (Lustra?) became the active temptress and
> nihilist, and as
> such took on power.  The Herero nihilists has a
> similar strategy.
> Freedom's just another word...
> 
> 
> David Morris
> 
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 1:08 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > woman is the nigger of the world. what else to say?
> >
> > I think IV is as feminist as Quentin Tarantino (IMHO).
> not a criticism, Pynchon's obsessions lay elsewhere (IMHO)
> >
> > rich
>