Tokyo in transit : Japanese culture on the rails and road / Alisa Freedman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Freedman, Alisa.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese literature--Japan--Tokyo--History and criticism.

Japanese literature.

Japanese literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Commuting in literature.

Railroad travel in literature.

Commuting--Social aspects--Japan--Tokyo--History--20th century.

Commuting.

Railroad travel--Social aspects--Japan--Tokyo--History--20th century.

Railroad travel.

Local transit--Social aspects--Japan--Tokyo--History--20th century.

Local transit.

Tokyo (Japan)--Social life and customs--1912-1945.

Tokyo (Japan).

Tokyo (Japan)--In literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Kawabata, Yasunari, 1899-1972. Shitai shōkainin. English

ISBN:

9780804778572

0804778574

OCLC:

721194441