IV (10) page 156

[alice wellintown]

These two, Women, are Asians, are Americans, and are clearly the
"children of Dogeaters" who have rejected and are (and this is where P
takes a risk in representing the "Other") rejections of the Melting
Pot / Neo-Colonial imperatives of American Late-Capitalism: political
domination, economic exploitation, and cultural erasure.

One reason why Larry's perspective must be distanced from the implied
author's norms is that, failure to account for this distance argues
that the author has either regressed to his immature James Bond and
Playboy attitudes or has written a white Male's backlash protest
fiction.

P undermines the stereotypical (Butterfly to Miss Saigon) romance
found in Western representations of the East, even within "US
boarders" (these obviously have global capital Octopus arms that reach
around the globe), that is, the narrative that focuses on male-female
love relationships, in which,  the American Male's domination,
exploitation, cultural erasure, enfetishment is sustained, in part by
ethnic, gender, and national stereotypes, and national or
international myths projected: Butterfly & The American Dream /
Melting Pot.

Historisizing the Anti-Chinese and Anti-Japanese immigration Real
Estate laws at the turn of the last century and then during the Wars
(WWII, SE Asian Wars), and focusing on the fear (Aunt Reet's "Get a
Lot" in the suburbs) and, ironically, and poingently, this history is
introduced by the black guy,  of white nativists of  "racial
pollution"  through miscegenation and fear of increasing unemployment
because of the "yellow peril" ... "the boat people" and so on . ..even
as, for example, when Anti-Chinese fever runs hot, the Japanese are
exoticized and eroticized, as the wheel of American bad Karma Turns
its way across the Orient, P walks a very thin line. Fictionalizing
the Orient or the Asian, American, Woman, has been and continues to be
a means of control.

Although Bambi and Jade have ben invested with these Orientalisms
(Said), they slip out of control. As it sez in the Book of Coll Hand
Luke, Chapter One Verses 23-24: "Sometimes a banana is pretty cool
hand"





> Jade's toilet paper / "letter of intent" joke  underscores the idea that
> Jade and Bambi may simply just be really mean,  sarcastic little wonders who
> think very highly of themselves.
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> Patchouli  -  oh lord love a duck if I never smell that again it might be
> too soon.