03416nam 2200745Ia 450 991078138830332120231209020452.00-8047-7857-410.1515/9780804778572(CKB)2550000000032900(EBL)686217(OCoLC)721194441(SSID)ssj0000526159(PQKBManifestationID)12195860(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000526159(PQKBWorkID)10520420(PQKB)11590250(MiAaPQ)EBC686217(DE-B1597)564446(DE-B1597)9780804778572(Au-PeEL)EBL686217(CaPaEBR)ebr10466280(OCoLC)1224278500(EXLCZ)99255000000003290020100610d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTokyo in transit[electronic resource] Japanese culture on the rails and road /Alisa FreedmanStanford, CA Stanford University Pressc20111 online resource (350 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8047-7144-8 0-8047-7145-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexThis 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.Japanese literatureJapanTokyoHistory and criticismJapanese literature20th centuryHistory and criticismCommuting in literatureRailroad travel in literatureCommutingSocial aspectsJapanTokyoHistory20th centuryRailroad travelSocial aspectsJapanTokyoHistory20th centuryLocal transitSocial aspectsJapanTokyoHistory20th centuryTokyo (Japan)Social life and customs1912-1945Tokyo (Japan)In literatureJapanese literatureHistory and criticism.Japanese literatureHistory and criticism.Commuting in literature.Railroad travel in literature.CommutingSocial aspectsHistoryRailroad travelSocial aspectsHistoryLocal transitSocial aspectsHistory895.6/093558Freedman Alisa1462384Kawabata Yasunari1899-1972.440615MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781388303321Tokyo in transit3671370UNINA