Increased use of mass transportation in the early twentieth century
enabled men and women of different social classes to interact in
ways they had not before. Using a cultural studies approach that
combines historical research and literary analysis, author Alisa
Freedman investigates fictional, journalistic, and popular culture
depictions of how mass transportation changed prewar Tokyo's social
fabric and artistic movements, giving rise to gender roles that
have come to characterize modern Japan. Freedman persuasively
argues that, through descriptions of trains and buses, stations,
transport workers, and passengers, Japanese authors responded to
contradictions in Tokyo's urban modernity and exposed the effects
of rapid change on the individual. She shines a light on how prewar
transport culture anticipates what is fascinating and frustrating
about Tokyo today, providing insight into how people make
themselves at home in the city. An approachable and enjoyable book,
Tokyo in Transit offers an exciting ride through modern Japanese
literature and culture, and includes the first English translation
of Kawabata Yasunari's The Corpse Introducer, a 1929 crime novella
that presents an important new side of its Nobel Prizewinning
author.
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