Tokyo - Memory, Imagination, and the CityPevná vazba
Tokyo - Memory, Imagination, and the CityPevná vazba Tokyo: Memory, Imagination, and the City is a collection of eight essays that explore Tokyo urban space from the perspective of memory in works of…
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Tokyo - Memory, Imagination, and the CityPevná vazba
Tokyo: Memory, Imagination, and the City is a collection of eight essays that explore Tokyo urban space from the perspective of memory in works of the imagination--novels, short stories, poetry, essays, and films. The closing years of the Shōwa period (1926-1989) were a watershed decade of spatial transformation in Tokyo. Written by scholars of Japanese studies based in England, Germany, Japan, and the United States, the book focuses on texts produced in Japan since the 1980s.
The contributors to the volume share the view that works of the imagination are constitutive elements of how cities are experienced and perceived. It was also a time (in Japan, as elsewhere) when conversations about the nature of memory--historical, cultural, collective, and individual--intensified. Each of the essays responds to the growing interest in studies on Tokyo with a literary-cultural
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