Full metal apache : transactions between cyberpunk Japan and avant-pop America / Takayuki Tatsumi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tatsumi, Takayuki, 1955-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Post-contemporary interventions.

Post-contemporary interventions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science fiction, Japanese--History and criticism.

Science fiction, Japanese.

Science fiction, American--History and criticism.

Science fiction, American.

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

Japanese fiction.

Japanese fiction--Foreign influences.

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

American fiction--Foreign influences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (269 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham, NC : Duke University Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Compares modern science fiction and the avant garde pop scene in America and Japan.

Contents:

Foreword / Larry McCaffery

Introduction: Anatomies of Dependence

Part One Theory

Chapter 1. Mikadophilia, or The Fate of Cyborgian Identity in the Postmillenarian Milieu

Chapter 2. Comparative Metafiction: Somewhere between Ideology and Rhetoric

Part Two History

Chapter 3. Virus as Metaphor: A Postorientalist Reading of the Future War Novels of the 1890s

Chapter 4. Deep North Gothic: A Postoccidentalist Reading of Hearne, Yanagita, and Akutagawa

Chapter 5. Which Way to Coincidence?: A Queer Reading of J. G. Ballard's Crash

Chapter 6. A Manifesto for Gynoids: A Cyborg Feminist Reading of Richard Calder

Part Three Aesthetics

Chapter 7. Semiotic Ghost Stories: The Japanese Reflection of Mirrorshades

Chapter 8. Junk Art City, or How Gibson Meets Thomasson in Virtual Light

Chapter 9. Pax Exotica: A new exoticist perspective on Audrey, Anna-chan, and Idoru

Part Four Performance

Chapter 10. Magic Realist Tokyo: Poe's "The Man That Was Used Up" as a Subtext for Bartok-Terayama's Magical Musical The Miraculous Mandarin

Part Five Representation

Chapter 11. Full Metal Apache: Shinya Tsukamoto's Tetsuo Diptych, or The Impact of American Narratives on the Japanese Representation of Cyborgian Identity

Conclusion: Waiting for Godzilla: Toward a globalist theme park

Appendix 1: Toward the Frontiers of Fiction: From Metafiction and Cyberpunk through Avant-Pop, The Correspondence between Takayuki Tatsumi and Larry McCaffery

Appendix 2: A Dialogue with the Nanofash Pygmalion: An Interview with Richard Calder.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-235) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)

ISBN:

9780822388012

0822388014

OCLC:

301283977