Tokyo

Memory, Imagination, and the City
Herausgeber: Schulz, Evelyn; Thornbury, Barbara E.

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 474g
• ISBN-13: 9781498523677
• ISBN-10: 1498523676
• Artikelnr.: 49336852

Autorenporträt

Barbara E. Thornbury is professor of Japanese studies in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Studies at Temple University. Evelyn Schulz is professor of Japanese studies in the Department of Asian Studies at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, Barbara E. Thornbury and Evelyn Schulz Chapter 1: "Pulling the Thorns of Suffering: Remembering Sugamo in It
Hiromi's "The Thorn-Puller," Jeffrey Angles Chapter 2: "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 Chapter 3: "On Möbius Strips, Ruins and Memory: The Intertwining of Places and Times in Hino Keiz
's Tokyo," Mark Pendleton Chapter 4: "Mapping Environments of Memory, Nostalgia, and Emotions in 'Tokyo Spatial (Auto)biographies,'" Evelyn Schulz Chapter 5: "Held Hostage to History: Okuda Hideo's 'Olympic Ransom,'" Bruce Suttmeier Chapter 6: "The Tokyo Cityscape, Sites of Memory, and Hou Hsiao-Hsien's Café Lumière," Barbara E. Thornbury Chapter 7: "Remaking Tayama Katai's Futon (1907) in Nakajima Ky
ko's FUTON (2003): Remembrance and Renewal of Urban Space through the Art of Rewriting," Angela Yiu Chapter 8: "The Child of Memory: Cityscapes in Tsushima Y
ko's Short Fiction of the 1980s," Eve Zimmerman