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Pynchon’s California The New American Canon The Iowa Series in Contemporary Literature and Culture Samuel Cohen, series editor PYNCHON’S CALIFORNIA edited by scott mcclintock and john miller university of iowa press | iowa city University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242 Copyright © 2014 by the University of Iowa Press www.uiowapress.org Printed in the United States of America Design by April Leidig No part of this book may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means without permission in writing from the publisher. All reasonable steps have been taken to contact copyright holders of material used in this book. The publisher would be pleased to make suitable arrangements with any whom it has not been possible to reach. The University of Iowa Press is a member of Green Press Initiative and is committed to preserving natural resources. Printed on acid- free paper Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Pynchon’s California / edited by Scott McClintock and John Miller. pages cm. — (The New American Canon: The Iowa Series in Contemporary Literature and Culture) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978- 1- 60938- 273- 5 (pbk) ISBN 978- 1- 60938- 294- 0 (ebk) 1. Pynchon, Thomas — Criticism and interpretation. 2. California — In literature. I. McClintock, Scott. II. Miller, John, 1959 July 2 – PS3566.Y55Z84 2014 813'.54—dc23 2014010227 Contents Acknowledgments vii 1 Introduction: Surveying Pynchon’s California Scott McClintock and John Miller 15 Situated Fictions: Reading the California Novels against Thomas Pynchon’s Narrative World | Margaret Lynd 35 Life on the Beach: The Natural Elements in Thomas Pynchon’s California Trilogy | Hanjo Berressem 65 Pynchon’s Coast: Inherent Vice and the Twilight of the Spatially Specific | Bill Millard 91 The Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State of California in Pynchon’s Fiction | Scott McClintock 113 P laygrounds of Detection: The Californian Private Eye in Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 and Inherent Vice Scott Macleod 135 Profane Illuminations: Postmodernism, Realism, and the Holytail Marijuana Crop in Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland Henry Veggian 165 Postmodern Sacrality and Inherent Vice Christopher K. Coffman 181 Reading, Resistance, and the California Turn in Pynchon’s Cornucopian Fiction | John Miller 201 Maybe He’d Have to Just Keep Driving, or Pynchon on the Freeway | Stephen Hock Contributors 221 Works Cited 223 Index 235 Acknowledgments The editors would like to express their gratitude to the contributors to this volume, all of whom responded quickly and cheerfully to our various requests at every stage of the project, and to Catherine Chilton, Elisabeth Chretien, Catherine Cocks, Samuel Cohen, Charlotte Wright, and the staff at the University of Iowa Press for their encouragement and careful attention throughout. An earlier version of “Pynchon’s Coast: Inherent Vice and the Twilight of the Spatially Specific,” by Bill Millard, was originally published in College Hill Review 4 (fall 2009). This revised version is published here within by permission. Pynchon’s California
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