Full Metal Apache

Transactions Between Cyberpunk Japan and Avant-Pop America

By: Takayuki Tatsumi

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Takayuki Tatsumi is one of Japan&;s leading cultural critics, renowned for his work on American literature and culture. With his encyclopedic knowledge and fan&;s love of both Japanese and American art and literature, he is perhaps uniquely well situated to offer this study of the dynamic crosscurrents between the avant-gardes and pop cultures of Japan and the United States. In Full Metal Apache, Tatsumi looks at the work of artists from both sides of the Pacific: fiction writers and poets, folklorists and filmmakers, anime artists, playwrights, musicians, manga

creators, and performance artists. Tatsumi shows how, over the past twenty years or so, writers and artists have openly and exuberantly appropriated materials drawn from East and West, from sources both high and low, challenging and unraveling the stereotypical images Japan and America have of one another.

Full Metal Apache introduces English-language readers to a vast array of Japanese writers and performers and considers their work in relation to the output of William Gibson, Thomas Pynchon, H. G. Wells, Jack London, J. G. Ballard, and other Westerners. Tatsumi moves from the poetics of metafiction to the complex career of Madame Butterfly stories and from the role of the Anglo-American Lafcadio Hearn in promoting Japanese folklore within Japan during the nineteenth century to the Japanese monster Godzilla as an embodiment of both Japanese and Western ideas about the Other. Along the way, Tatsumi develops original arguments about the self-fashioning of &;Japanoids&; in the globalist age, the philosophy of &;creative masochism&; inherent within postwar Japanese culture, and the psychology of &;Mikadophilia&; indispensable for the construction of a cyborg identity. Tatsumi&;s exploration of the interplay between Japanese and American cultural productions is as electric, ebullient, and provocative as the texts and performances he analyzes.

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"I have always thought that Takayuki Tatsumi had (and still has) the most interesting lines into whatever it is that I've been doing with fiction, culture, and technology. He showed up before 99% of American academics had ever heard of me and seemed immediately to know what I was talking about--often before I did myself." William Gibson, author of Pattern Recognition [Full Metal Apache is a] brilliant, paradigm-smashing study by Japan's hippest literary critic and cultural commentator... There is probably no other figure that has had a greater impact on the postmodern literary and cultural scene in Japan than Takayuki Tatsumi." --Larry McCaffery, from the preface "Full Metal Apache is a genuinely exciting and powerful text, incredibly rich in both material and ideas. Takayuki Tatsumi's overall theme is the complex and dense dynamic between Japan and America (and often the West in general) and he investigates this dynamic in ways and with material far fresher and more critically invigorating than a standard analysis of 'influences' would be."--Susan J. Napier, author of Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation "Full Metal Apache is a marvelous literary mediation of postoriental aesthetics and the transactions of cybercultures. Takayuki Tatsumi cites synchronicity over mimesis, a mighty tease of cultures, and his inspired critique of the chimeric emperor, gaijin fabulations, scrap thieves, ghost stories, and metafiction is extraordinary and masterly."--Gerald Vizenor, University of California, Berkeley

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Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Anatomies of Dependence
Theory
Mikadophilia, or The Fate of Cyborgian Identity in Postmillenarian Milieu
Comparative Metafiction: Somewhere between Ideology and Rhetoric
History
Virus as Metaphor: A Postorientalist Reading of the Future War Novels of the 1890s
Deep North Gothic: A Postoccidentalist Reading of Hearn, Yangita, and Akutagawa
Which Way to Coincidence: A Queer Reading of J. Ballard's Crash
A Manifesto for Gynoids: A Cyborg Feminist Reading of Richard Calder
Aesthetics
Semiotic Ghost Stories: The Japanese Reflection of Mirrorshades
Junk Art City, or How Gibson Meets Thomasson in Virtual Light
Pax Exotica: A New Exoticist Perspective on Audrey, Anna-chan, and Idoru
Performance
Magic Realist Tokyo: Poe's "The Man That Was Used Up" as a Subtext for Bartók-Terayama's Magical Musical The Miraculous Mandarin
Representation
Full Metal Apache: Shinya Tsukamoto's Tetsuo Diptych, or The Impact of American Narrative son the Japanese Representation of Cyborgian Identity
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