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Tokyo : memory, imagination, and the city / edited by Barbara E. Thornbury, Evelyn Schulz.

Other author/creatorThornbury, Barbara E., editor.
Other author/creatorSchulz, Evelyn, 1963- editor.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2018]
Descriptionxxii, 189 pages : 24 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Introduction; 1 Pulling the Thorns of Suffering; 2 Pavane for a Dead Princess, or Exploring Geographies of the City, the Mind, and the Social; 3 On Möbius Strips, Ruins, and Memory; 4 Mapping Environments of Memory, Nostalgia, and Emotions in "Tokyo Spatial (Auto)biographies"; 5 Held Hostage to History; 6 The Tokyo Cityscape, Sites of Memory, and Hou Hsiao-Hsien's Café Lumière; 7 Remaking Tayama Katai's Futon in Nakajima Kyōko's FUTON; 8 The Child of Memory; Index; About the Editors and Contributors
Abstract 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN1498523676 hardcover
ISBN9781498523677 hardcover

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Joyner General Stacks DS896.5 .T65 2018 ✔ Available Place Hold