Tokyo: Memory, Imagination, and the City - Paperback

by Barbara E. Thornbury (Editor), Evelyn Schulz (Editor), Jeffrey Angles (Contribution by)

This interdisciplinary collection examines Tokyo in the cultural imagination. The contributors analyze how Tokyo has been perceived and experienced through such cultural lenses as novels, poetry, short stories, and films created in Japan since the 1980s.

Author Biography

Barbara E. Thornbury is professor of Japanese studies in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Studies at Temple University. Evelyn Schulz is professor of Japanese studies in the Department of Asian Studies at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.