Tokyo

This interdisciplinary collection examines Tokyo in the cultural imagination. The contributors analyze how Tokyo has been perceived and experienced through such cultural lenses as novels, poetry, short stories, and films created in Japan since the 1980s.

Introduction, Barbara E. Thornbury and Evelyn Schulz
Chapter 1: "Pulling the Thorns of Suffering: Remembering Sugamo in It¿ Hiromi's "The Thorn-Puller," Jeffrey Angles
Chapter 2: "Pavane for a Dead Princess, or Exploring Geographies of the City, the Mind, and the Social: Fujita Yoshinaga's Tenten and Miki Satoshi's Adrift in Tokyo," Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt
Chapter 3: "On Möbius Strips, Ruins and Memory: The Intertwining of Places and Times in Hino Keiz¿'s Tokyo," Mark Pendleton
Chapter 4: "Mapping Environments of Memory, Nostalgia, and Emotions in 'Tokyo Spatial (Auto)biographies,'" Evelyn Schulz
Chapter 5: "Held Hostage to History: Okuda Hideo's 'Olympic Ransom,'" Bruce Suttmeier
Chapter 6: "The Tokyo Cityscape, Sites of Memory, and Hou Hsiao-Hsien's Café Lumière," Barbara E. Thornbury
Chapter 7: "Remaking Tayama Katai's Futon (1907) in Nakajima Ky¿ko's FUTON (2003): Remembrance and Renewal of Urban Space through the Art of Rewriting," Angela Yiu
Chapter 8: "The Child of Memory: Cityscapes in Tsushima Y¿ko's Short Fiction of the 1980s," Eve Zimmerman