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

[Wolfe, Skip]

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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.

. . . not to mention Ensign Moratori