Tokyo in Transit : Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road.

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This work discusses literary depictions of mass transit in 20th century Tokyo in the decades preceding WWII. It cuts across literary and historical/sociological analysis, and contributes to the growing body of work examining Japanese urbanism, gender, and modernism.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Freedman, Alisa
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2010.
Temas:
1900-1999
Japanese literature > Japan > Tokyo > History and criticism.
Japanese literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Commuting in literature.
Railroad travel in literature.
Commuting > Social aspects > Japan > Tokyo > History > 20th century.
Railroad travel > Social aspects > Japan > Tokyo > History > 20th century.
Local transit > Social aspects > Japan > Tokyo > History > 20th century.
Littérature japonaise > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Voyages en train dans la littérature.
Littérature japonaise > Japon > Tōkyō > Histoire et critique.
Migrations alternantes > Aspect social > Japon > Tōkyō > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Voyages en train > Aspect social > Japon > Tōkyō > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Transports publics > Aspect social > Japon > Tōkyō > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Commuting in literature
Commuting > Social aspects
Japanese literature
Literature
Local transit > Social aspects
Manners and customs
Railroad travel in literature
Tokyo (Japan) > Social life and customs > 1912-1945.
Tokyo (Japan) > In literature.
Japan > Tokyo
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Tokyo on the Rails and Road: Mass Transportation as Cultural and Social Vehicles; 1. Eyewitness Accounts: Observations of Salarymen and Schoolgirls on Tokyo's First Trains; 2. Boys Who Feared Trains: University Students, Railway Trauma, and the Health of the Nation; 3. Shinjuku Station Sketches: Constructing an Icon of Modern Daily Life; 4. From Modern Girls in Motion to Figures of Nostalgia: "Bus Girls" in the Popular Imagination; The Corpse Introducer by Kawabata Yasunari; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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