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2006

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Tatsumi Takayuki Tatsumi

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Duke University Press

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2006

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Publié par

Duke University Press

Date de parution

27 juin 2006

EAN13

9780822388012

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

1 Mo

Takayuki Tatsumi is one of Japan's leading cultural critics, renowned for his work on American literature and culture. With his encyclopedic knowledge and fan's love of both Japanese and American art and literature, he is perhaps uniquely well situated to offer this study of the dynamic crosscurrents between the avant-gardes and pop cultures of Japan and the United States. In Full Metal Apache, Tatsumi looks at the work of artists from both sides of the Pacific: fiction writers and poets, folklorists and filmmakers, anime artists, playwrights, musicians, manga creators, and performance artists. Tatsumi shows how, over the past twenty years or so, writers and artists have openly and exuberantly appropriated materials drawn from East and West, from sources both high and low, challenging and unraveling the stereotypical images Japan and America have of one another.Full Metal Apache introduces English-language readers to a vast array of Japanese writers and performers and considers their work in relation to the output of William Gibson, Thomas Pynchon, H. G. Wells, Jack London, J. G. Ballard, and other Westerners. Tatsumi moves from the poetics of metafiction to the complex career of Madame Butterfly stories and from the role of the Anglo-American Lafcadio Hearn in promoting Japanese folklore within Japan during the nineteenth century to the Japanese monster Godzilla as an embodiment of both Japanese and Western ideas about the Other. Along the way, Tatsumi develops original arguments about the self-fashioning of "Japanoids" in the globalist age, the philosophy of "creative masochism" inherent within postwar Japanese culture, and the psychology of "Mikadophilia" indispensable for the construction of a cyborg identity. Tatsumi's exploration of the interplay between Japanese and American cultural productions is as electric, ebullient, and provocative as the texts and performances he analyzes.

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Publié par

Duke University Press

Date de parution

27 juin 2006

EAN13

9780822388012

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

1 Mo

Full Metal Apache

Post-Contemporary Interventions Series editors: Stanley Fish and Fredric Jameson

Takayuki Tatsumi

Full Metal Apache

Transactions

Between Cyberpunk

Japan and Avant-Pop America

Duke University Press Durham and London 2006

nd printing, 

All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper  Designed by Heather Hensley Typeset in Monotype Garamond by Tseng Information Systems, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book.

Duke University Press gratefully acknowledges the support of two organizations that provided funds toward the production of this book:

The Japan Foundation

Keio University, through the Keio Gijuku Fukuzawa Memorial Fund

To my parents and Mari

‘‘This historical sense, which is a sense of the timeless and of the temporal together, is what makes a writer traditional. And it is at the same time

what makes a writer most acutely conscious of his place in time, of his own contemporaneity.’’

T. S. Eliot, ‘‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’’ (1919)

‘‘For us, of course, things can change so abruptly, so violently, so profoundly, that futures like our grandparents’ have insuﬃcient ‘now’ to stand on. We have no future because our present is too volatile.’’

W illiam Gibson,Pattern Recognition(2003)

‘‘The twentieth century has thus brought to the fore the hidden link between trauma and law. The aftermath of the events of September , , in the United States has dramatized the same connection for the twenty-ﬁrst century.’’

Shoshana Felman,The Juridical Unconscious: Trials and Traumas in the Twentieth Century(2002)

CONTENTS

ForewordLarry McCaﬀery

xxiii Acknowledgments

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Introduction: Anatomies of Dependence

Part OneTheory  Chapter . Mikadophilia, or The Fate of Cyborgian Identity in the Postmillenarian Milieu

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Chapter . Comparative Metaﬁction: Somewhere between Ideology and Rhetoric

Part TwoHistory  Chapter . Virus as Metaphor: A Postorientalist Reading of the Future War Novels of the s

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Chapter . Deep North Gothic: A Postoccidentalist Reading of Hearn, Yanagita, and Akutagawa

Chapter . Which Way to Coincidence?: A Queer Reading of J. G. Ballard’sCrash

Chapter . A Manifesto for Gynoids: A Cyborg Feminist Reading of Richard Calder

Part ThreeAesthetics  Chapter . Semiotic Ghost Stories: The Japanese Reﬂection of Mirrorshades

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Chapter . Junk Art City, or How Gibson Meets Thomasson inVirtual Light

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Chapter . Pax Exotica: A New Exoticist Perspective on Audrey, Anna-chan, andIdoru

Part FourPerformance  Chapter . Magic Realist Tokyo: Poe’s ‘‘The Man That Was Used Up’’ as a Subtext for Bartók-Terayama’s Magical Musical The Miraculous Mandarin

Part FiveRepresentation  Chapter . Full Metal Apache: Shinya Tsukamoto’sTetsuo Diptych, or The Impact of American Narratives on the Japanese Representation of Cyborgian Identity

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Conclusion—Waiting for Godzilla: Toward a Globalist Theme Park

Appendix : Toward the Frontiers of ‘‘Fiction’’: From Metaﬁction and Cyberpunk, through Avant-Pop—The Correspondence between Takayuki Tatsumi and Larry McCaﬀery

Appendix : A Dialogue with the Nanofash Pygmalion: An Interview with Richard Calder

Notes

Works Cited

Index

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