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Osaka modern : the city in the Japanese imaginary / Michael P. Cronin.
LIBRA DS897.O815 C76 2017
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cronin, Michael P., author.
- Series:
- Harvard East Asian monographs ; 403.
- Harvard East Asian monographs
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular culture--Japan--Osaka--History--20th century.
- Popular culture.
- Public opinion--Japan--Osaka--History--20th century.
- Public opinion.
- History.
- Osaka (Japan)--Civilization--20th century.
- Osaka (Japan).
- Civilization.
- Japan--Osaka.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 232 pages ; 24 cm.
- Distribution:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Distributed by Harvard University Press.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Published by the Harvard University Asia Center, [2017]
- Summary:
- "Examines the relationship between local and national orders of space, language, daily practice, etc. in literature, cinema, and other popular culture of the city of Osaka produced during the transwar era, from the 1920s through the 1950s"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Osaka as an idea
- Mastering the local: narration in Tanizaki Jun'ichiro's Manji
- A local practice of play: Oda Sakunosuke's Meoto zenzai
- City, empire, and flow: Osaka and the Philippines in Oda's Waga machi
- Diseased dream: nostalgia and futurity in Tanizaki's Sasameyuki
- The afterlife of the local voice: Yamasaki Toyoko and film adaptation
- Conclusion: National drag.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-220) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674975187
- 0674975189
- OCLC:
- 953792530
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