Tokyo (eBook, ePUB)

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

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Tokyo: Memory, Imagination, and the City is a collection of eight essays that explore Tokyo urban space from the perspective of memory in works of the imagination-novels, short stories, poetry, essays, and films. Written by scholars of Japanese studies based in England, Germany, Japan, and the United States, the book focuses on texts produced in Japan since the 1980s. The closing years of the Showa period (1926-1989) were a watershed decade of spatial transformation in Tokyo. It was also a time (in Japan, as elsewhere) when conversations about the nature of memory-historical, cultural, collective, and individual-intensified. The contributors to the volume share the view that works of the imagination are constitutive elements of how cities are experienced and perceived. Each of the essays responds to the growing interest in studies on Tokyo with a literary-cultural orientation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498523684
• Artikelnr.: 49367029

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 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