Tokyo in Transit: Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road - Couverture rigide

Freedman, Alisa

 
9780804771443: Tokyo in Transit: Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road
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ISBN 10 : 0804771448 ISBN 13 : 9780804771443
Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2010

Synopsis

Increased use of mass transportation in the early twentieth century enabled men and women of different social classes to interact in ways they had not before. Using a cultural studies approach that combines historical research and literary analysis, author Alisa Freedman investigates fictional, journalistic, and popular culture depictions of how mass transportation changed prewar Tokyo's social fabric and artistic movements, giving rise to gender roles that have come to characterize modern Japan. Freedman persuasively argues that, through descriptions of trains and buses, stations, transport workers, and passengers, Japanese authors responded to contradictions in Tokyo's urban modernity and exposed the effects of rapid change on the individual. She shines a light on how prewar transport culture anticipates what is fascinating and frustrating about Tokyo today, providing insight into how people make themselves at home in the city. An approachable and enjoyable book, Tokyo in Transit offers an exciting ride through modern Japanese literature and culture, and includes the first English translation of Kawabata Yasunari's The Corpse Introducer, a 1929 crime novella that presents an important new side of its Nobel Prizewinning author.

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À propos de l'auteur

Alisa Freedman is Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature and Film at the University of Oregon. She is engaged in several interdisciplinary research projects and literary translations that investigate how the modern urban experience has shaped human subjectivity, cultural production, and gender roles.

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Éditeur
Stanford University Press
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0804771448
ISBN 13 
9780804771443
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
349
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780804771450: Tokyo in Transit: Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road

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ISBN 10 :  0804771456 ISBN 13 :  9780804771450
Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2010
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