'This land is my land, this land also is my land': real estate narratives in Pynchon's fiction. Issue 3 (16th March 2019)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- 'This land is my land, this land also is my land': real estate narratives in Pynchon's fiction. Issue 3 (16th March 2019)
- Main Title:
- 'This land is my land, this land also is my land': real estate narratives in Pynchon's fiction
- Authors:
- Käkelä, Tiina
- Abstract:
- ABSTRACT: The question of land and land-ownership forms a constant thematic in Thomas Pynchon's work, and it can be traced back to his early fiction. In this paper, I'll focus on how Pynchon uses the land as a site of political and economic struggle between landowners and various propertyless people – squatters, indigenous peoples, refugees, settlers, hippies and anarchists. The analyses extend from The Crying of Lot 49 to Pynchon's latest novel, Bleeding Egde, where the struggle takes place in the immaterial spaces of the internet. To understand the role of land in Pynchon's work as both common and private, both sacred and commercialised, both material and virtual, I'll use the notion of common from Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's Commonwealth (2009). My aim is to point out the recurring moments in Pynchon's fiction where common is the origin of wealth, and how private property stems from its exploitation. In Pynchon, however, the common always survives because of its versatility, recreating its form over and over again.
- Is Part Of:
- Textual practice. Volume 33:Issue 3(2019)
- Journal:
- Textual practice
- Issue:
- Volume 33:Issue 3(2019)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 33, Issue 3 (2019)
- Year:
- 2019
- Volume:
- 33
- Issue:
- 3
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2019-0033-0003-0000
- Page Start:
- 383
- Page End:
- 398
- Publication Date:
- 2019-03-16
- Subjects:
- Cognitive capitalism -- common -- land -- landed property -- real estate -- developer -- new economy -- multitude -- heterotopia -- California
Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Periodicals
Criticism -- Periodicals
Criticism, Textual -- Periodicals
Semiotics -- Periodicals
801.95 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rtpr20/current ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/0950236X.asp ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/0950236X.2019.1580504 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0950-236X
- Deposit Type:
- Legaldeposit
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- British Library DSC - 8813.780460
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