Confronting the monolith: Authority and the Cold War in Gravity's Rainbow

Article Abstract:

Gravity's Rainbow explicitly addresses a constructed audience in the Cold War and concerns the formation of the Cold War in its techno-bureaucratic context. Bureaucratic constructions of System act as the modus operandi for authority in the novel, paralleling the formation of Systems theory and analysis. Many feel that Systems theory was developed as a response to perceived ideas of individual genius. Pynchon's novel reconstructs the experience of the individual in relation to the system.

Criticism and interpretation, Pynchon, Thomas

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Conceptualising southern Liberalism: ideology and the Pepper-Smathers 1950 primary in Florida

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In a southern context, the 1950 Democratic Senate primary in Florida is used as an example to demonstrate the impact of Cold War imagery of other nations on liberalism. Florida forms a useful case study to examine the changing political landscape of the United States at mid-century because it formed a political meeting ground between the South and the metropolitan locus of liberal thought in the north-east of the country.

Political movements

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"The last vestige of institutionalized sexism"? Paternalism, equal rights, and the death penalty in twentieth and twenty-first century Sunbelt America: The case for Florida

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A brief review on crime stories of three specific defendants, Ruby McCollum, Judias Buenoano, and Aileen Wuornos, as significant markers in Florida's penal and political history is presented. Florida has executed 254 inmates since the year 1924 when the state shifted from hanging to electrocution as its method of execution.

History, Capital punishment, Sexism

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