Re: Salinger's Problem with Westerners?

I wasn't aware that Salinger was more amenable to Japan than the US (I
wonder where you get that...why hasn't he moved to Japan?), and he's been
hostile to literary critics long before deconstruction came around.
Psychoanalytic crit was the big thing when Salinger was writing, and he
doesn't seem to have a great deal of respect for psychoanalysis to begin
with, so I'd imagine that just made it two strikes against lit crit.

Honestly, I haven't read a lot of Salinger crit, but I haven't seen many
people out there deconstructing his work. I really don't see a lot of
people out there doing deconstruction that much. I see a lot of age old
rhetorical practices being called deconstruction, and a lot of guys like
computer programmers writing about deconstruction, but I don't see an
overwhelming number of professional literary critics doing deconstruction.
I think historical and cultural research is more common these days...

Jim

Patrick Wong wrote:

> http://www.dourish.com/goodies/decon.html
>
> Do you think it possible that the sort of
> postmodernist literary critics described in the above
> link are the reason why JD Salinger is more amenable
> to Japan than the United States?
>
> Reading the introductory note to RHTRBC And S:AI makes
> me think that he is pleading for people to stop
> deconstructing things in such a fashion and, for God's
> sake, to just read the goddamn story and enjoy it in
> the same way that someone can enjoy the simplicity and
> beauty of a Japanese haiku or Chinese poem.
>
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