Full metal apache : transactions between cyberpunk Japan and avant-pop America

Author(s)

• 巽, 孝之 タツミ, タカユキ
• McCaffery, Larry

Bibliographic Information

Full metal apache : transactions between cyberpunk Japan and avant-pop America

Takayuki Tatsumi ; [with a foreword by Larry McCaffery]

（Post-contemporary interventions / series editors, Stanley Fish & Fredric Jameson）

Duke University Press, 2006

• : pbk
• : cloth

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-235) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: cloth ISBN 9780822337621

Description

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Larry McCaffery xi Acknowledgements xxiii Introduction: Anatomies of Dependence 1 Part One: Theory 1. Mikadophilia, or The 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: The 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 The Miraculous Mandarin 137 Part Five: Representation 11. Full Metal Apache: Shinya Tsukamoto's Tetsuo Diptych, or The Impact of American Narrative son the Japanese Representation of Cyborgian Identity 151

Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780822337744

Description

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Larry McCaffery xi Acknowledgements xxiii Introduction: Anatomies of Dependence 1 Part One: Theory 1. Mikadophilia, or The 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: The 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 Bartók-Terayama’s Magical Musical The Miraculous Mandarin 137 Part Five: Representation 11. Full Metal Apache: Shinya Tsukamoto’s Tetsuo Diptych, or The Impact of American Narrative son the Japanese Representation of Cyborgian Identity 151

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Details

• NCID: BA77697367
• ISBN:
  • 9780822337744
  • 0822337622
• LCCN: 2005037847
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Durham ; London
• Pages/Volumes: xxvi, 241 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PL747.55
  • DC22 : 895.6/30876209044
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Science fiction, Japanese -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Science fiction, American -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Japanese fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Japanese fiction -- Foreign influences
  • LCSH : American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : American fiction -- Foreign influences
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA07089480