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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.
List of contents
Introduction, Barbara E. Thornbury and Evelyn Schulz
Chapter 1: "Pulling the Thorns of Suffering: Remembering Sugamo in Ito 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 Keizo'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 Kyoko's FUTON (2003): Remembrance and Renewal of Urban Space through the Art of Rewriting," Angela Yiu
Chapter 8: "The Child of Memory: Cityscapes in Tsu
About the author
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.Evelyn Schulz is professor of Japanese studies in the Department of Asian Studies at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.Barbara E. Thornbury is professor of Japanese studies in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Studies at Temple University.
Summary
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.
