Title: Full metal apache : transactions between cyberpunk Japan and avant-pop America
Abstract:Foreword by Larry McCaffery xi Acknowledgements xxiii Introduction: Anatomies of Dependence 1 Part One: Theory 1. Mikadophilia, or Fate of Cyborgian Identity in Postmillenarian Milieu 9 2. Comparative...Foreword by Larry McCaffery xi Acknowledgements xxiii Introduction: Anatomies of Dependence 1 Part One: Theory 1. Mikadophilia, or 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: 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 Bartok-Terayama's Magical Musical Miraculous Mandarin 137 Part Five: Representation 11. Full Metal Apache: Shinya Tsukamoto's Tetsuo Diptych, or Impact of American Narrative son the Japanese Representation of Cyborgian Identity 151Read More
Publication Year: 2006
Publication Date: 2006-01-01
Language: en
Type: book
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