Tokyo in Transit : Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road
Alisa. Freedman
Bok Engelsk 2010 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Palo Alto : : Stanford University Press, , 2010.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (350 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; 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. - 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.
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| Emner | Commuting - History - Social aspects
Japanese literature - History and criticism - Japan - Tokyo Local transit Railroad travel Vis mer... Commuting --Social aspects --Japan --Tokyo --History --20th century.
Commuting in literature. Japanese literature --20th century --History and criticism. Japanese literature --Japan --Tokyo --History and criticism. Local transit --Social aspects --Japan --Tokyo --History --20th century. Railroad travel --Social aspects --Japan --Tokyo --History --20th century. Railroad travel in literature. Tokyo (Japan) --In literature. Tokyo (Japan) --Social life and customs --1912-1945. 1900-tallet East Asian Languages & Literatures Japansk litteratur Languages & Literatures Litteraturkritikk Pendling Tôkyô |
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| ISBN | 0804771448. - 0804771456. - 9780804771443. - 9780804771450
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