Asia in The Mansion (Location)

While various Asian locations appear in the canon as early as Flags in the Dust, V.K. Ratliff's reference to "Asia" in this novel is the only time the continent itself is named. The reference occurs in a description of how the world is growing darker during the late 1930s, as events carry it toward a second World War - or as Ratliff puts it, "we watched the lights go out in Spain and Ethiopia, the darkness that was going to creep eastward across all Europe and Asia too" (198).