Gravity's Rainbow, Domination, and Freedom
- ISBN-10
- 0820345954
- ISBN-13
- 9780820345956
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 269
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Authors
- Steven C. Weisenburger, Luc Herman
Description
Herman and Weisenburger put the novel's abiding questions about freedom in context with sixties struggles against war, restricted speech rights, ethno-racial oppression, environmental degradation, and subtle new means of social and psychological control.
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