The new Asian city : three-dimensional fictions of space and urban form / Jini Kim Watson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Watson, Jini Kim.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

East Asian fiction--History and criticism.

East Asian fiction.

Cities and towns in literature.

Urbanization in literature.

Space in literature.

Urbanization--East Asia--History.

Urbanization.

Cities and towns--East Asia--Growth--History.

Cities and towns.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Under Jini Kim Watson's scrutiny, the Asian Tiger metropolises of Seoul, Taipei, and Singapore reveal a surprising residue of the colonial environment. Drawing on a wide array of literary, filmic, and political works, and juxtaposing close readings of the built environment, Watson demonstrates how processes of migration and construction in the hypergrowth urbanscapes of the Pacific Rim crystallize the psychic and political dramas of their colonized past and globalized present. Examining how newly constructed spaces-including expressways, high-rises, factory zones, department stores, and govern

Contents:

Introduction: the production of space in Singapore, Seoul, and Taipei

Part I. Colonial cities: imagining the colonial city; orphans of Asia: modernity and colonial literature; export production and the blank slate

Part II. Postwar urbanism: narratives of human growth versus urban renewal; the disappearing woman, interiority, and private space; roads, railways, and bridges: arteries of the nation

Part III. Industrializing landscapes: the way ahead: the politics and poetics of Singapore's developmental landscape; mobility and migration in Taiwanese new cinema; the redemptive realism of Korean Minjung literature

Conclusion. Too late, too soon: globalization and new Asian cities.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4529-4755-4

0-8166-7879-0

OCLC:

777565070