Tatsumi / Fish / Jameson Full Metal Apache

Transactions Between Cyberpunk Japan and Avant-Pop America
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8801-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

Reihe: Post-Contemporary Interventions

Compares modern science fiction and the avant garde pop scene in America and Japan.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tatsumi, Takayuki

Fish, Stanley

Jameson, Fredric

Weitere Mitwirkende

McCaffery, Larry

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Larry McCaffery xi

Acknowledgements xxiii

Introduction: Anatomies of Dependence 1

Part One: Theory

1. Mikadophilia, or The Fate of Cyborgian Identity in Postmillenarian Milieu 9

2. Comparative Metafiction: Somewhere between Ideology and Rhetoric 38

Part Two: History

3. Virus as Metaphor: A Postorientalist Reading of the Future War Novels of the 1890s 63

4. Deep North Gothic: A Postoccidentalist Reading of Hearn, Yangita, and Akutagawa 71

5. Which Way to Coincidence: A Queer Reading of J. Ballard’s Crash 86

6. A Manifesto for Gynoids: A Cyborg Feminist Reading of Richard Calder 93

Part Three: Aesthetics

7. Semiotic Ghost Stories: The Japanese Reflection of Mirrorshades 105

8. Junk Art City, or How Gibson Meets Thomasson in Virtual Light 112

9. Pax Exotica: A New Exoticist Perspective on Audrey, Anna-chan, and Idoru 123

Part Four: Performance

10. Magic Realist Tokyo: Poe’s “The Man That Was Used Up” as a Subtext for Bartók-Terayama’s Magical Musical The Miraculous Mandarin 137

Part Five: Representation

11. Full Metal Apache: Shinya Tsukamoto’s Tetsuo Diptych, or The Impact of American Narrative son the Japanese Representation of Cyborgian Identity 151

Über Autor(innen)

Takayuki Tatsumi is Professor of English at Keio University in Tokyo. He is the author of many books in Japanese, including Lincoln’s Bullet; A Reading of 2001: A Space Odyssey; Slipstream Japan; New Americanist Poetics; A Manifesto for Japanoids; Metafiction as Ideology; and Cyberpunk America.