Thomas Pynchon, Sex, and Gender

[David Morris]

Pricy book.  I think it's safe to say that Pynchon's portrayals of
sexuality have changed greatly over the years.

David Morris

On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 9:11 AM Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>
wrote:

>
> " ... you know what happens when my pussy's runnin' the show ..."
> (Vineland, p. 260)
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> Thomas Pynchon, Sex, and Gender
>
> Edited by Ali Chetwynd, Joanna Freer, and Georgios Maragos
>
> A fresh look at Pynchon through the shifting lenses of gender studies
>
> Description
>
> Thomas Pynchon’s fiction has been considered masculinist, misogynist,
> phallocentric, and pornographic: its formal experimentation, irony, and
> ambiguity have been taken both to complicate such judgments and to be parts
> of the problem. To the present day, deep critical divisions persist as to
> whether Pynchon’s representations of women are sexist, feminist, or
> reflective of a more general misanthropy, whether his writing of sex is
> boorishly pornographic or effectually transgressive, whether queer
> identities are celebrated or mocked, and whether his departures from
> realist convention express masculinist elitism or critique the gendering of
> genre.
>
> Thomas Pynchon, Sex, and Gender reframes these debates. As the first
> book-length investigation of Pynchon’s writing to put the topics of sex and
> gender at its core, it moves beyond binary debates about whether to see
> Pynchon as liberatory or conservative, instead examining how his
> preoccupation with sex and gender conditions his fiction’s whole worldview.
> The essays it contains, which cumulatively address all of Pynchon’s novels
> from V. (1963) to Bleeding Edge (2013), investigate such topics as the
> imbrication of gender and power, sexual abuse and the writing of sex, the
> gendering of violence, and the shifting representation of the family.
> Providing a wealth of new approaches to the centrality of sex and gender in
> Pynchon’s work, the collection opens up new avenues for Pynchon studies as
> a whole.
>
> Hardcover
> List price: $99.95
> 978-0-8203-5400-2
> 11/15/2018
>
> http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/index/thomas_pynchon_sex_and_gender
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