LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 11 : 12 December 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.

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Thematic Analysis of Vineland and Mason & Dixon

V. Rajesh M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. Candidate
J. Jaya Parveen M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. Candidate

Vineland – A Fictional Town

Vineland is a novel written by Thomas Pynchon in 1990. Its setting is Vineland - a fictional town in California's Anderson Valley. Pynchon’s Vinland is a distant, romanticized land often related to a refuge. It is identified with Thule, the White Island, or Blessed Islands of Western mythology (Hawthorne, 1992). Vineland depicts the postmodern life of United States in the 1980's. It attacks the American politics in a hilarious way. It discusses how the country is ruined by the federal government and various political parties.

A Political Novel – A Political Satire

Vineland is controversially political. However, it cannot be considered as leftist literature. Pynchon makes satirical remarks on the counterculture and opposition movements. He expresses his anger on Reaganomics by producing the novel in such a way that it resembles George Orwell’s 1984 in attacking political developments of the day and Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath in depicting the landscapes and social upheavals.

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