Text and the City: Essays on Japanese Modernity (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society)
by Ai Maeda
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Maeda remapped the study of modern Japanese literature and culture in the 1970s and 1980s, helping to generate widespread interest in studying mass culture on the one hand and marginalized sectors of modern Japanese society on the other. These essays reveal the broad range of Maeda’s cultural criticism. Among the topics considered are Tokyo; utopias; prisons; visual media technologies including panoramas and film; the popular culture of the Edo, Meiji, and contemporary periods; maps; women’s magazines; and women writers. Integrally related to these discussions are Maeda’s readings of works of Japanese literature including Matsubara Iwagoro’s In Darkest Tokyo, Nagai Kafu’s The Fox, Higuchi Ichiyo’s Growing Up, Kawabata Yasunari’s The Crimson Gang of Asakusa, and Narushima Ryuhoku’s short story “Useless Man.” Illuminating the infinitely rich phenomena of modernity, these essays are full of innovative, unexpected connections between cultural productions and urban life, between the text and the city.
Details
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Author
- Ai Maeda
- Format
- Hardcover
- Published
- Mar 25, 2004
- ISBN-13
- 9780822333340
- ISBN-10
- 0822333341
- Pages
- 408
- Carton quantity
- 5 copies
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