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Record Nr.

UNINA9910483073903321

Autore

Thornbury Barbara E

Titolo

Mapping Tokyo in Fiction and Film / / by Barbara E. Thornbury

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

9783030342760

303034276X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xix, 233 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies, , 2634-5188

Disciplina

823.914

809.5

Soggetti

Comparative literature

Literature, Modern - 20th century

Literature, Modern - 21st century

Oriental literature

Motion pictures - Asia

Adaptation (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Comparative Literature

Contemporary Literature

Asian Literature

Asian Film and TV

Adaptation Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Translation, Subtitling, and Tokyo Placemaking -- Chapter 3. Gender and Mobility: Tracking Fictional Characters on Real Monorails, Trains, Subways, and Trams -- Chapter 4. Coordinates of Home and Community -- Chapter 5. Locating the Outsider Inside Tokyo -- Chapter 6. Tokyo Cartographies of Mystery and Crime -- Chapter 7. Conclusion: Flux and Fluidity and World Literature and Film.

Sommario/riassunto

Mapping Tokyo in Fiction and Film explores ways that late 20th- and early 21st- century fiction and film from Japan literally and figuratively map Tokyo. The four dozen novels, stories, and films discussed here



describe, define, and reflect on Tokyo urban space. They are part of the flow of Japanese-language texts being translated (or, in the case of film, subtitled) into English. Circulation in professionally translated and subtitled English-language versions helps ensure accessibility to the primarily anglophone readers of this study—and helps validate inclusion in lists of world literature and film. Tokyo’s well-established culture of mapping signifies much more than a profound attachment to place or an affinity for maps as artifacts. It is, importantly, a counter-response to feelings of insecurity and disconnection—insofar as the mapping process helps impart a sense of predictability, stability, and placeness in the real and imagined city. .