The Child of Memory: Cityscapes in Tsushima Yūko's Short Fiction of the 1980s / Eve Zimmerman. 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 -- On Möbius Strips, Ruins, and Memory: The Intertwining of Places and Times in Hino Keizō's Tokyo / Mark Pendleton -- Mapping Environments of Memory, Nostalgia, and Emotions in "Tokyo Spatial (Auto)biographies" / Evelyn Schulz -- Held Hostage to History: Okuda Hideo's "Olympic Ransom" / Bruce Suttmeier -- The Tokyo Cityscape, Sites of Memory, and Hou Hsiao-Hsien's Café Lumière / Barbara E. Thornbury -- Remaking Tayama Katai's Futon in Nakajima Kyōko's FUTON: Remembrance and Renewal of Urban Space through the Art of Rewriting / Angela Yiu -- The Child of Memory: Cityscapes in Tsushima Yūko's Short Fiction of the 1980s / Eve Zimmerman.
Summary:
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.
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