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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781388303321

Autore

Freedman Alisa

Titolo

Tokyo in transit [[electronic resource] ] : Japanese culture on the rails and road / / Alisa Freedman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, CA, : Stanford University Press, c2011

ISBN

0-8047-7857-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (350 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KawabataYasunari <1899-1972.>

Disciplina

895.6/093558

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.