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



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Autore: Freedman Alisa Visualizza persona
Titolo: Tokyo in transit [[electronic resource] ] : Japanese culture on the rails and road / / Alisa Freedman Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Stanford, CA, : Stanford University Press, c2011
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (350 p.)
Disciplina: 895.6/093558
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto geografico: Tokyo (Japan) Social life and customs 1912-1945
Tokyo (Japan) In literature
Altri autori: KawabataYasunari <1899-1972.>  
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Tokyo in transit  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8047-7857-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910781388303321
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