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Tokyo : Memory, Imagination, and the City - Barbara E. Thornbury

Tokyo

Memory, Imagination, and the City

By: Barbara E. Thornbury (Editor), Evelyn Schulz (Editor), Jeffrey Angles, Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt, Eve Zimmerman

eText | 17 October 2017 | Edition Number 1

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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. 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 closing years of the Showa period (1926-1989) were a watershed decade of spatial transformation in Tokyo. It was also a time (in Japan, as elsewhere) when conversations about the nature of memory—historical, cultural, collective, and individual—intensified. The contributors to the volume share the view that works of the imagination are constitutive elements of how cities are experienced and perceived. Each of the essays responds to the growing interest in studies on Tokyo with a literary-cultural orientation.

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The essays in this cohesive, stimulating volume reveal an imaginative history of Tokyo, a city with few landmark monuments but a host of collective and personal memories that inspire nostalgia and belonging, protest and defeat, willful amnesia and creative recollection. This is an innovative volume that teaches us ways to analyze space, place, and memory in creative work.
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