Urban Planetary and Tokyo Modernity

Dwelling in Passing

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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The Urban Planetary and Tokyo Modernity: Dwelling in Passing analyzes everyday experiences in Tokyo during the 1910s and 1920s, showing how urban literature and urban ethnography both tried to come to terms with an emerging planetary situation defined by both ongoing movement and an intensification of local experiences. This book argues that modern urban experiences are not primarily a question of alienation, consumerism, or national life but first one of dwelling, and in particular “a dwelling in passing”. Looking at the work of the Japanese urban ethnographer Kon Wajiro in relation to early 20th century literary mappings of Tokyo in Japanese literature such as Mori Ogai’s 1912 novel Youth to Tayama Katai’s 1916 The Tokyo Near-Suburb, Christophe Thouny argues for the need to reconsider these texts in terms of a speculative genealogy of local answers to an insistent planetary situation.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-12-15
Mått157 x 240 x 23 mm
Vikt572 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Studies in Modern Japan
Antal sidor284
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781666929300

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Shifting between Kon Wajiro’s own work and that of central literary figures around him, and between Kon’s time and our own, this book does much to redress the lack of English-language scholarship on Kon and his idiosyncratic but broadly influential writings. Thouny provides an incisive reading of Kon’s approach, and also puts it into action. Along the way he carries us through some of the central threads of Kon’s work, from a re-reading of the idea of dwelling as a liberating condition, to an insistence on the ongoing importance of urban form as the only real site within which to find real potential for openness and change—including today. This is a deeply thoughtful and thought-provoking work.