Takayuki TatsumiFull Metal Apache
Transactions Between Cyberpunk Japan and Avant-Pop America
Foreword by Larry McCaffery xi
Acknowledgements xxiii
Introduction: Anatomies of Dependence 1
Part One: Theory
1. Mikadophilia, or The Fate of Cyborgian Identity in Postmillenarian
Milieu 9
2. Comparative Metafiction: Somewhere between Ideology and Rhetoric 38
Part Two: History
3. Virus as Metaphor: A Postorientalist Reading of the Future War Novels of
the 1890s 63
4. Deep North Gothic: A Postoccidentalist Reading of Hearn, Yangita, and
Akutagawa 71
5. Which Way to Coincidence: A Queer Reading of J. Ballard’s Crash 86
6. A Manifesto for Gynoids: A Cyborg Feminist Reading of Richard Calder 93
Part Three: Aesthetics
7. Semiotic Ghost Stories: The Japanese Reflection of Mirrorshades 105
8. Junk Art City, or How Gibson Meets Thomasson in Virtual Light 112
9. Pax Exotica: A New Exoticist Perspective on Audrey, Anna-chan, and
Idoru 123
Part Four: Performance
10. Magic Realist Tokyo: Poe’s “The Man That Was Used Up” as a Subtext for
Bartók-Terayama’s Magical Musical The Miraculous Mandarin 137
Part Five: Representation
11. Full Metal Apache: Shinya Tsukamoto’s Tetsuo Diptych, or The Impact of
American Narrative son the Japanese Representation of Cyborgian Identity
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