Urban Planetary and Tokyo Modernity - Dwelling in Passing

This book revisits Japanese modern literature in relation to Kon Wajir¿'s urban ethnography and draws a speculative genealogy of dwelling practices in the Japanese capital defined by mobility, affect and the beautiful, in particular what Kon called "accidental beauty."

List of contents

Chapter 1: Encounters with the Planetary: Mori Ogai's Cartographic Writing
Chapter 2: The View from the Near-Suburb: Tayama Katai's Musashino
Chapter 3: From Production to Attitude: Cartographic Heterotopia in Kafu's Fair-Weather Clogs
Chapter 4: Of Modernology and Parks: Kon Wajiro's Theory of Urban Ecologies
Chapter 5: The Urban Voyant in the New Guidebook to Greater Tokyo

About the author

Christophe Thouny is associate professor of visual culture and media studies, modern literature, and critical theory at Ritsumeikan University.

Product details

• Authors: Christophe Thouny
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2023
• EAN: 9781666929300
• ISBN: 978-1-66692-930-0
• No. of pages: 284
• Series: New Studies in Modern Japan
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Japan, Tokyo, Japanese, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Japanese, c 1910 to c 1919, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), Urban communities, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000