{"product_id":"osaka-modern-michael-p-cronin-9780674975187","title":"Osaka Modern: The City in the Japanese Imaginary","description":"\u003cp\u003eImages of the city in literature and film help constitute the experience of modern life. Studies of the Japanese city have focused on Tokyo, but a fuller understanding of urban space and life requires analysis of other cities, beginning with Osaka. Japan's \"merchant capital\" in the late sixteenth century, Osaka remained an industrial center--the \"Manchester of the East\"--into the 1930s, developing a distinct urban culture to rival Tokyo's. It therefore represents a critical site of East Asian modernity. \u003ci\u003eOsaka Modern \u003c\/i\u003emaps the city as imagined in Japanese popular culture from the 1920s to the 1950s, a city that betrayed the workings of imperialism and asserted an urban identity alternative to--even subversive of--national identity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eOsaka Modern\u003c\/i\u003e brings an appreciation of this imagined city's emphatic locality to: popular novels by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō, favorite son Oda Sakunosuke, and best-seller Yamasaki Toyoko; films by Toyoda Shirō and Kawashima Yūzō; and contemporary radio, television, music, and comedy. Its interdisciplinary approach creates intersections between Osaka and various theoretical concerns--everyday life, coloniality, masculinity, translation--to produce not only a fresh appreciation of key works of literature and cinema, but also a new focus for these widely-used critical approaches.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael P. Cronin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674975189\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674975187\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/27\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 246\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d","brand":"Michael P. Cronin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46617855262975,"sku":"9780674975187","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ca0ae744-fb94-48ae-8033-a4562e6fcff8.jpg?v=1740068514","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/osaka-modern-michael-p-cronin-9780674975187","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}