POETICS OF PARANOIA IN SELECTED NOVELS BY KURT VONNEGUT AND THOMAS PYNCHON | ||
| Journal of Literature Ink | ||
| Article 1, Volume 1, Issue 4, March 2018, Pages 583-628 | ||
| Author | ||
| Inas Abdul-Munem Qadoos | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Paranoia defines a culture, particularly the American. Since WWII (1939-45), it became an inevitable thought structure in the USA community. Most of the postmodern American novelists’ interest in paranoia is due to its relevance to everyday life anxieties and horrors. Since WWII, an extraordinary number of writers have used expressions of paranoia to present the influence of postwar technologies, social organisations, and communication systems on human beings. Writers as different as Ralph Ellison, William S. Burroughs, Joseph Heller, Margaret Atwood, Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Pynchon, Joan Dijon, Kathy Acker, and Don DeLillo have depicted individuals nervous about the ways large organisations might be controlling their lives, influencing their actions, or even constructing their desires. | ||
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