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
Otros Autores: Kawabata, Yasunari, 1899-1972
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Japonés
Publicado: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2011.
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.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Asian > General.
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:
  • Tokyo on the rails and road : mass transportation as cultural and social vehicles
  • Eyewitness accounts : observations of salarymen and schoolgirls on Tokyo's first trains
  • Boys who feared trains : university students, railway trauma, and the health of the nation
  • Shinjuku Station sketches : constructing an icon of modern daily life
  • From modern girls in motion to figures of nostalgia : "bus girls" in the popular imagination
  • The corpse introducer / by Kawabata Yasunari ; translated by Alisa Freedman and Hiroko Minami.

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