Asians in Pynchon ( was Re: Japanese in Vineland redux)

[davemarc]

At 10:03 PM 9/11/96 -0400, you wrote:
>A while back, someone brought up the Japanese element in Vineland, as in,
>what was it doing there?  The question kind of got glossed over without much
>discussion by everyone on the list, including me.  However, now I'm taking a
>new class on representations of Asian culture in American literature(by
>writers OTHER than Asian-Americans) and the question allofasudden seems
>pretty damn interesting.  Previously, the most notable reference that I can
>think of to Asia, in all of TRP's work, is number 37, the "Fu Manchu".  I
>can't recall of a single Asian character.  

There are a Kouple of Krazy Komikazes in GR.

davemarc