Tatsumi: Comparative metafiction

[jbor at bigpond.com]

Interesting overview, discusses Pynchon (_Vineland_ and the 'Luddite' 
essay in particular) in the contexts of cyberpunk and 
"post-Pynchonesque" metafiction, with a look at trends in Japanese sci 
fi (including Shozo Numa's _Yapoo the Human Cattle_)

'Comparative metafiction: Somewhere between ideology and rhetoric'
by Takayuki Tatsumi. _Critique_ 39.1. Fall 1997, pp. 2-17.

Pdf available.

> "According to
> Takayuki Tatsumi, the representation of Japan in the novel represents
> Pynchon's response to William Gibson or Bruce Sterling; it is a sort of
> disdain for the new kids on the block, a mockery of their 
> high-tech-hyper
> Orientalist discourse."

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0411&msg=94944

best