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Race in early Pynchon: rewriting sphere in V.
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Author
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Abstract
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| This essay examines racial representation in both the typescript of Pynchon's V. and the published novel. We focus on revisions of the African-American saxophone player Sphere ostensibly intended to lessen the novel's air of social protest. While Pynchon's later fiction is more radical, Sphere in the typescript and even his much-trimmed version in the published novel appear to illustrate a youthful mix of cautious liberalism and Beat cliché. |
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Language
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English
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Source (journal)
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Critique : studies in contemporary fiction. - Washington, D.C.
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Publication
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Washington, D.C.
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2011
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ISSN
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0011-1619
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1939-9138
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DOI
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10.1080/00111611003631660
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Volume/pages
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52
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(2011)
, p. 17-29
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ISI
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000284887400002
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Full text (Publisher's DOI)
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