Introduction -- "Incompatibilities have come to bed" : jazz, language, and cultural alienation in V. and its Beat influences -- "A matter of idle curiosity" : imperial history and the authority of whiteness in V. -- "The simplest kind of beginning" : the problem of white double consciousness in Pynchon's work of the mid-sixties -- Transculturation and liberalism in Gravity's rainbow: "now everybody..."
Summary
"Everybody's America reassesses Thomas Pynchon's literary career in order to explain the central role played by the racialization of American culture in the postmodernist deconstruction of subjectivity and literary authority and in the crisis in white liberal culture."--BOOK JACKET
Notes
Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-214) and index
