Amerikkka Uber Alles: German Nationalism, American Imperialism, and the 1960s Antiwar Movement in "Gravity's Rainbow".(Critical Essay)

From: CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction | Date: June 22, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

The author argues Thomas Pynchon's novel "Gravity's Rainbow" must be understood by realizing members of the US 1960s protest movement compared US Vietnam policies with military policies in Nazi Germany. The protestors associated Nazi tactics with American bombing of Cambodia and Vietnam, the killing of approximately 1.2 mil Vietnamese soldiers and civilians, the wounding of approximately 1 mil Vietnamese, and the social attacks on protesters at home.

A cross Pynchon's body of writing, there is an abiding concern with the radical democratic politics of 1960s America. That concern ...

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