Tokyo : memory, imagination, and the city

Tokyo : memory, imagination, and the city / edited by Barbara E. Thornbury, Evelyn Schulz.

This interdisciplinary collection examines Tokyo in the cultural imagination. The contributors analyze how Tokyo has been perceived and experienced through such cultural lenses as novels, poetry, short stories, and films created in Japan since the 1980s.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Thornbury, Barbara E. (Editor), Schulz, Evelyn, 1963- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2018]
Subjects:
Since 1945
HISTORY > Asia > Japan.
Literature
Manners and customs
Tokio.
Literatur
Film
Tokyo (Japan) > Social life and customs > 1945-
Tokyo (Japan) > In literature.
Japan > Tokyo
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Table of Contents:
  • Pulling the Thorns of Suffering: Remembering Sugamo in Itō Hiromi's "The Thorn-Puller" / Jeffrey Angles
  • Pavane for a Dead Princess, or Exploring Geographies of the City, the Mind, and the Social: Fujita Yoshinaga's Tenten and Miki Satoshi's Adrift in Tokyo / Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt
  • On Möbius Strips, Ruins, and Memory: The Intertwining of Places and Times in Hino Keizō's Tokyo / Mark Pendleton
  • Mapping Environments of Memory, Nostalgia, and Emotions in "Tokyo Spatial (Auto)biographies" / Evelyn Schulz
  • Held Hostage to History: Okuda Hideo's "Olympic Ransom" / Bruce Suttmeier
  • The Tokyo Cityscape, Sites of Memory, and Hou Hsiao-Hsien's Café Lumière / Barbara E. Thornbury
  • Remaking Tayama Katai's Futon in Nakajima Kyōko's FUTON: Remembrance and Renewal of Urban Space through the Art of Rewriting / Angela Yiu
  • The Child of Memory: Cityscapes in Tsushima Yūko's Short Fiction of the 1980s / Eve Zimmerman.

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