Tokyo

Memory, Imagination, and the City

Barbara E. Thornbury, Evelyn Schulz (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

212 Seiten

2017
Lexington Books (Verlag)
9781498523677 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	31.01.2018
Co-Autor	Jeffrey Angles, Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt, Mark Pendleton
Zusatzinfo	8 b/w photos;
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 237 mm
Gewicht	458 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-13	9781498523677 / 9781498523677
Zustand	Neuware