Japanese

[Henry Musikar]

How about the kamikaze pilots, eh? A-and the man from Hiroshima on 
the boat who knew Greta when?

On 11 Sep 96 at 22:03, Teen Age Riot wrote:

> Date:          Wed, 11 Sep 1996 22:03:47 -0400
> To:            pynchon-l at waste.org
> From:          Teen Age Riot <alwang at eniac.seas.upenn.edu>
> Subject:       Japanese in Vineland redux

> 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.  So why did he
> insert this half-submerged Japanese thread running through Vineland?
>  Here's a particular example: How does the Sisterhood of Kunoichi
> Attentives reinforce or reverse Asian AND Caucasian female
> stereotypes?
> 
> Thinking all of this would make for a rather interesting paper, but
> that's just tha grubby academic in me talking.
> 
> Al
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