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Through examining case studies of animal representation in Thomas Pynchon’s works, Hatooka illuminates how radically and imaginatively the legendary novelist depicts his empathy for nonhuman beings and conducts conducting a comparative study of Pynchon’s narratives and his contemporary documentarians and thinkers.
“Keita Hatooka’s study of Thomas Pynchon’s Animal Tales is a compelling model for a combined approach of environmental criticism and postmodernism on a theoretical level and offers a comprehensive reading of Pynchon’s entire novelistic oeuvre for its representation of non-human life in an anthropocentric world. Hatooka is a true pioneer of the still too rare ecocritical approaches to Pynchon and finally gives an English-speaking audience access to Pynchon’s long-standing work in collected, revised, and updated form.”
"Keita Hatooka’s Thomas Pynchon’s Animal Tales: Fables for Ecocriticism offers illuminating readings of Pynchon’s works, situated at the intersection of familiar postmodern touchstones and both classic and more recent ecocritical perspectives. The resultant arguments concerning Pynchon’s representations of non-human animals bring to light the degree to which critics have overlooked important ecological aspects of one of America’s most vital postmodernist authors. Along the way, this book does more than draw attention to neglected aspects of Pynchon’s texts: it shows how Pynchon can help us think better about futures of ecocriticism."
Keita Hatooka is professor of adaptation studies in the Graduate School of Science and Technology at Meiji University.