Thomas Pynchon’s Animal Tales

Fables for Ecocriticism

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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Throughout his works, Thomas Pynchon uses various animal characters to narrate fables that are vital to postmodernism and ecocriticism. Thomas Pynchon’s Animal Tales: Fables for Ecocriticism examines case studies of animal representation in Pynchon’s texts, such as alligators in the sewer in V.; the alligator purse in Bleeding Edge; dolphins in the Miami Seaquarium in The Crying of Lot 49; dodoes, pigs, and octopuses in Gravity’s Rainbow; Bigfoot and Godzilla in Vineland and Inherent Vice; and preternatural dogs and mythical worms in Mason & Dixon and Against the Day. Through this exploration, Keita Hatooka illuminates how radically and imaginatively the legendary novelist depicts his empathy for nonhuman beings. Furthermore, by conducting a comparative study of Pynchon’s narratives and his contemporary documentarians and thinkers, Thomas Pynchon’s Animal Tales leads readers to draw great lessons from the fables, which stimulate our ecocritical thought for tomorrow.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2022-08-29
Mått159 x 238 x 19 mm
Vikt426 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieEcocritical Theory and Practice
Antal sidor166
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781793655875

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Introduction: For Whom the Fable Says: Pynchon, Lyotard, and CarsonChapter 1. Who Caught the Blood of the Alligator? V.Chapter 2. The Dolphin Jumped over the Moon: The Crying of Lot 49Chapter 3. What We Talk about When We Talk about Extinction: Gravity’s RainbowChapter 4. Who’s Afraid of the Big Badass? Vineland and Inherent ViceChapter 5. Sonnets for a Multispecies Cradle: Mason & Dixon and Against the DayChapter 6. The Lady with the Alligator Purse: Bleeding Edge and Jonathan Safran FoerConclusion: And Then There Were None (Except for Nature on the Screen): Documentary Guys, Grizzly Man, and Thomas Pynchon

“Keita Hatooka’s study of Thomas Pynchon’s Animal Tales is a compelling model for a combined approach of environmental criticism and postmodernism on a theoretical level and offers a comprehensive reading of Pynchon’s entire novelistic oeuvre for its representation of non-human life in an anthropocentric world. Hatooka is a true pioneer of the still too rare ecocritical approaches to Pynchon and finally gives an English-speaking audience access to Pynchon’s long-standing work in collected, revised, and updated form.”