Train Travel as Embodied Space-Time in Narrative Theory

Atsuko Sakaki is Professor of East Asian studies and Comparative Literature at University of Toronto, Canada. She is the author of many articles and three books, including Recontextualizing Texts: Narrative Performance in Modern Japanese Fiction (Harvard, 1999) and The Rhetoric of Photography in Modern Japanese Literature (Brill 2015).

• Introduction: The Train as Embodied Space-Time, with Case Studies of The Lady Vanishes, The Narrow Margin, and Night Train Traveling Alone on the Rails into the Future: Sanshirō, My Most Secret Council, Night Train to Lisbon, and Zone Juncture 1: Wendy and Lucy Best Friends for a While: Fugitives on the Train in “Night of the Milky Way Railway,” Night Passage, and The Naked Eye Juncture 2: Clouds of Sils Maria It’s Not “I,” It’s “You”: A Second-Person Protagonist on the Train in La Modification, Blue Journey, and Suspects on the Night Train Conclusion: Stations as an Extension of the Train Space-Time in the Romantic Narrative “North Station”