Mapping Tokyo in Fiction and Film

Barbara E. Thornbury is Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Studies at Temple University, USA. She co-edited and contributed to Tokyo: Memory, Imagination, and the City (2018), and is the author of America’s Japan and Japan’s Performing Arts: Cultural Mobility and Exchange in New York, 1952-2011 (2013).

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Translation, Subtitling, and Tokyo Placemaking.- Chapter 3. Gender and Mobility: Tracking Fictional Characters on Real Monorails, Trains, Subways, and Trams.- Chapter 4. Coordinates of Home and Community.- Chapter 5. Locating the Outsider Inside Tokyo.- Chapter 6. Tokyo Cartographies of Mystery and Crime.- Chapter 7. Conclusion: Flux and Fluidity and World Literature and Film.