Explosions in the Family Theater: A Schizoanalytic Reading of Thomas Pynchonâs Against the Day

Emaline Friedman; Hans Skott-Myhre

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In: Literature and the Encounter with Immanence

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Emaline Friedman

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Pages:: 73â91

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004311930_006

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Abstract: This essay argues that Thomas Pynchonâs Against the Day documents a rupture and crisis within American capitalism prior to the First World War and reveals its effects on the labor movementâs struggle in the West. Using a schizoanalytic methodology, we analyze how the novel presents, and then disrupts and contests, the Oedipal/theatrical enclosure of the nuclear family. Revealing the dominant concept of the family as a myth and tragedy, we outline how the novel reveals a web of familial relations and resemblances as a series of breaks and contingent encounters that push the limit of representation. As a result, an immanent, or machinic, unconscious is presented as a form of desiring production per se, one that presents the protagonists as interrogatory figures or âconceptual personaeâ in an alchemical investigation of unanticipated surplus value.

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Literature and the Encounter with Immanence

Series:Â Value Inquiry Book Series, Volume: 298Â andÂ Philosophy, Literature, and Politics, Volume: 298

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004311930

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 24 May 2017

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- Literature and Cultural Studies
- Philosophy
  - General
  - Aesthetics & Cultural Theory

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