« Love it or leave it » : L'Amérique en rouge-gris-bleu dans Rabbit Redux de John Updike
In Rabbit Redux, Updike tackles the political, social, racial and gender upheavals of the late 60s, a period “which made us stare at our bloody hands and confront the rapacious motives underneath the tricolor slogans and question our favored-nation status under God.” Considered by its author “the m...
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cairn-RFEA_105_109RFEARevue française d’études américaines https://shs.cairn.info/revue-francaise-d-etudes-americaines-2005-3-page-93?lang=fr https://doi.org/10.3917/rfea.105.109 « Love it or leave it » : L'Amérique en rouge-gris-bleu dans Rabbit Redux de John Updike Mathé, Sylvie2005 blanc spectralnoir et blancRabbit Reduxrouge-gris-bleuverts pâturages/vert mortifèreblack and whitegreen pastures/deathly greengrey and blueRabbit Reduxredspectral whitenessfre Revue française d’études américaines | 105 | 3 | 2005-09-01 | p. 93-109 | 0397-7870 RFEA_10574 In Rabbit Redux, Updike tackles the political, social, racial and gender upheavals of the late 60s, a period “which made us stare at our bloody hands and confront the rapacious motives underneath the tricolor slogans and question our favored-nation status under God.” Considered by its author “the most violent and bizarre” of the Rabbit Angstrom tetralogy, Rabbit Redux fuses history and fiction in an apocalyptic narrative. Using the original 1971 hardback cover (with a background of red, grey and blue stripes) as its starting point, this essay focuses on the semiotic use of chromatic values and color imagery that transforms this chronicle of troubled times into a visionary happening: first, the fading of the starless banner in the spectral blankness of this summer of the moon; then the transformation of the green pastures of America into the deathly emblem of a world at war, at home and abroad; and finally the crossing of the color line in which the black man becomes the white of the page. The novel’s ambiguity culminates in an open, suspended, interrogative ending which maintains the reader in the grey zone of an unstable and complex truth.Cairn free access |
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In Rabbit Redux, Updike tackles the political, social, racial and gender upheavals of the late 60s, a period “which made us stare at our bloody hands and confront the rapacious motives underneath the tricolor slogans and question our favored-nation status under God.” Considered by its author “the most violent and bizarre” of the Rabbit Angstrom tetralogy, Rabbit Redux fuses history and fiction in an apocalyptic narrative. Using the original 1971 hardback cover (with a background of red, grey and blue stripes) as its starting point, this essay focuses on the semiotic use of chromatic values and color imagery that transforms this chronicle of troubled times into a visionary happening: first, the fading of the starless banner in the spectral blankness of this summer of the moon; then the transformation of the green pastures of America into the deathly emblem of a world at war, at home and abroad; and finally the crossing of the color line in which the black man becomes the white of the page. The novel’s ambiguity culminates in an open, suspended, interrogative ending which maintains the reader in the grey zone of an unstable and complex truth. |
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