Overview
- Engages with Asian Studies, Japanese studies, spatial literary studies, urban literary studies, and translation studies
- Incorporates novels, stories, and films that describe and reflect Tokyo urban space
- Considers the movement of Japanese-language literature and film being translated and subtitled in English
Part of the book series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies (GSLS)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
Mapping Tokyo in Fiction and Film explores ways that late 20th- and early 21st- century fiction and film from Japan literally and figuratively map Tokyo. The four dozen novels, stories, and films discussed here describe, define, and reflect on Tokyo urban space. They are part of the flow of Japanese-language texts being translated (or, in the case of film, subtitled) into English. Circulation in professionally translated and subtitled English-language versions helps ensure accessibility to the primarily anglophone readers of this study—and helps validate inclusion in lists of world literature and film. Tokyo’s well-established culture of mapping signifies much more than a profound attachment to place or an affinity for maps as artifacts. It is, importantly, a counter-response to feelings of insecurity and disconnection—insofar as the mapping process helps impart a sense of predictability, stability, and placeness in the realand imagined city.
Reviews
—Alisa Freedman, Professor of Japanese Literature, Cultural Studies, and Gender, University of Oregon, USA
“Mapping Tokyo presents an astute selection and brilliant analysis of the international explosion in literature and cinema featuring Tokyo in recent decades. By deploying the metaphor of mapping, understood as both a cartographic negotiation of the city and a tool for analysing literary and cinematic texts, Barbara Thornbury has provided a significant intervention into how we understand the representational space of Tokyo.”
—Mark Pendleton, Lecturer in Japanese Studies, The University of Sheffield, UK
“Mapping Tokyo in Fiction and Film offers a riveting portrait of a city that is not just a place, but also a concept and a function. This book left me with a new understanding of works I thought I knew well already, and of the complexity and specificity of Tokyo's being in contexts both fictional and real.”
—Michael Emmerich, Professor of Japanese Literature, UCLA, USA
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Barbara E. Thornbury is Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Studies at Temple University, USA. She co-edited and contributed to Tokyo: Memory, Imagination, and the City (2018), and is the author of America’s Japan and Japan’s Performing Arts: Cultural Mobility and Exchange in New York, 1952-2011 (2013).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mapping Tokyo in Fiction and Film
Authors: Barbara E. Thornbury
Series Title: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34276-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-34275-3Published: 31 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-34278-4Published: 31 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-34276-0Published: 30 January 2020
Series ISSN: 2578-9694
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5188
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 233
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: Translation Studies, Contemporary Literature, Asian Literature, Asian Cinema and TV, Adaptation Studies