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UNINA9910781388303321 |
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Autore |
Freedman Alisa |
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Titolo |
Tokyo in transit [[electronic resource] ] : Japanese culture on the rails and road / / Alisa Freedman |
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Stanford, CA, : Stanford University Press, c2011 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (350 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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KawabataYasunari <1899-1972.> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
Tokyo (Japan) Social life and customs 1912-1945 |
Tokyo (Japan) In literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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