r-list, I need your help!

[esmenet]

Can I ask you to list all the Journey to the West analyzation/criticism/references/reworkings you know? I'm asking partly for schoolwork reasons, and partly for curiosity.

Reworkings/references I know about: Saiyuki, Dragonball, Laurence Yep's dragon quartet, springgreen's American Gods fic, the hachimaki episode of Doraemon. I know there are lots more I'm not thinking of right now or just don't know, and I'm mostly unfamiliar with academic scholarship on the subject (will attempt to rectify today, between classes).

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[lookninjas]

The play-within-a-book in Tripmaster Monkey by Maxine Hong Kingston takes part of its plot from Journey to the West, and Wittman is sort of an analog to the Monkey King. Here's a brief article about it.

[terajk]

The video game Enslavement: Odyssey to the West (which I haven't played yet), is a reworking of Journey to the West set in a post-apocalyptic future. Here's the Wikipedia article about it, and the official site. (Warning: the official site has sound/automatically plays the game's trailer).

[troisroyaumes]

Not scholarship, but American Born Chinese reworks Monkey King in a diasporan context.

[kaigou]

The SciFi channel did an adaptation (well, loose adaptation, since I think it involved a westerner basically playing the role of the monk), and there was a movie-adaptation (with another Westerner playing the great-last-hope kind of schtick so the journey could succeed, or something, I don't know) that was called The Forbidden Kingdom. There was also a retelling in Heavy Metal (the graphic-comic magazine) by two Westerners, in the mid-80s, I think it was.

[tropicsbear]

Patalliro Saiyuki o/