Tokyo in transit [[electronic resource] ] : Japanese culture on the rails and road / / Alisa Freedman
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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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| 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.>
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| 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 |
| ISBN: | 0-8047-7857-4 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910781388303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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