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Title	A thomas pynchon guide to contemporary resistance
Abstract	Vineland marks a significant turning point in Pynchon's oeuvre, specifically with regard to Pynchon's politics. Previous to Vineland, Pynchon's work was concerned largely with the radicalism of the sixties and seventies as a resistance to totalitarian powers. Beginning with Vineland, this paranoia gives way to a more fully articulated global system of power. Pynchon's four most recent novels ( Vineland, Mason & Dixon, Against the Day, and Inherent Vice) feature an examination of neoliberal capitalism's exploitative system of privatization, deregulation, militarization, and free market fundamentalism. The novels also seek sites for resistance to this exploitative system. This study utilizes Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's concepts of Empire and the multitude to elaborate upon the global systems of power that Pynchon constructs in his four most recent novels and to examine the possibilities Pynchon explores for resistance to and advancement beyond these systems of power.
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Title: A thomas pynchon guide to contemporary resistance
Personal Name(s): Carswell, Sean
Downing, David B.
Corporate Name(s): Indiana University of Pennsylvania
English.
Note: Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Downing, David B. Committee members: Thomas Slater; Todd Thompson.
Topical Subject(s): American literature