History, Refusal and the Strategic-Essentialist Politics of Pynchon's Vineland (Thomas Pynchon) (Critical Essay‪)‬

After a while her thoughts started falling into place. The injustices she had seen in the streets and fields, so many, too many times gone unanswered--she began to see them more directly, not as world history or anything too theoretical, but as humans, usually male, living here on the planet, often well within reach, committing these crimes, major and petty, one by one against other living humans. Maybe we all had to submit to History, she figured, maybe not--but refusing to take shit from some named and specified source--well, it might be a different story. --Thomas Pynchon, Vineland (80)