"Vineland: A Historical and Political Space"
Bildiriler > Özet Bildiri · 2017
Yazarlar: Olena BOYLU
International Conference "The Politics of Space and the Humanities" organized by the Aristotle University, Yunanistan, Selanik, Uluslararası, Sözlü Sunum, Özet Bildiri, 2017-2017, ss 35-35
Özet
<p>Thomas Pynchon, who is widely known for his intense and complicated works, in his fourth novel <em>Vineland </em>(1990) vigorously criticizes Ronald Reagan’s United States of America. As an imaginary town and county in Northern California, Vineland turns into a stage for a particular historical events and projects the authors perspective on the politics and society of the period. Pynchon’s deliberate choice of the title reminds a different geography that was discovered by Leif Erickson long before Columbus. A land of “milk and honey” this time appears in a different atmosphere of the 20th century with its political upheavals and social transformation. Moreover, settled in 1984 the novel also implies an Orwellian world that can be analyzed from several angels. Hence this paper aims to examine the landscape provided by the author as well as its role in the historical and political context of the novel. </p>