Tokyo in transit : Japanese culture on the rails and road / Alisa Freedman.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Japanese Publication details: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2011.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 333 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type: - text
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- Kawabata, Yasunari, 1899-1972. Shitai shōkainin. English
- Japanese literature -- Japan -- Tokyo -- History and criticism
- Japanese literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Commuting in literature
- Railroad travel in literature
- Commuting -- Social aspects -- Japan -- Tokyo -- History -- 20th century
- Railroad travel -- Social aspects -- Japan -- Tokyo -- History -- 20th century
- Local transit -- Social aspects -- Japan -- Tokyo -- History -- 20th century
- Tokyo (Japan) -- Social life and customs -- 1912-1945
- Tokyo (Japan) -- In literature
- Littérature japonaise -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Voyages en train dans la littérature
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General
- Commuting in literature
- Commuting -- Social aspects
- Japanese literature
- Literature
- Local transit -- Social aspects
- Manners and customs
- Railroad travel in literature
- Japan -- Tokyo
- 1900-1999
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- PL887.T6 F74 2011eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-317) and index.
Tokyo on the rails and road : mass transportation as cultural and social vehicles -- Eyewitness accounts : observations of salarymen and schoolgirls on Tokyo's first trains -- Boys who feared trains : university students, railway trauma, and the health of the nation -- Shinjuku Station sketches : constructing an icon of modern daily life -- From modern girls in motion to figures of nostalgia : "bus girls" in the popular imagination -- The corpse introducer / by Kawabata Yasunari ; translated by Alisa Freedman and Hiroko Minami.
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This work discusses literary depictions of mass transit in 20th century Tokyo in the decades preceding WWII. It cuts across literary and historical/sociological analysis, and contributes to the growing body of work examining Japanese urbanism, gender, and modernism.
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