Dark Margins: Invisibility and Obscenity in Thomas Pynchon’s V., The Crying of Lot 49, and Gravity’s Rainbow

This paper explores the inter-related themes of invisibility and obscenity in Thomas Pynchon’s V., The Crying of Lot 49, and Gravity’s Rainbow, as they reveal a gradated movement from the struggle between the “animate” and the “inanimate,” to the resistance against the inanimateness of the system th...

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Main Author: Paul Jahshan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association Française d'Etudes Américaines 2010-10-01
Series:Transatlantica : Revue d'Études Américaines
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/4860