Asakusa's urban space and the incompleteness of the novel – The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa. Issue 1 (2nd January 2018)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Asakusa's urban space and the incompleteness of the novel – The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa. Issue 1 (2nd January 2018)
- Main Title:
- Asakusa's urban space and the incompleteness of the novel – The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa
- Authors:
- Wada, Hirofumi
White, Brian - Abstract:
- Abstract: Despite its frequent characterization as a 'cinematic' novel, Kawabata Yasunari's The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa uses linguistic expression's inherently selective nature to create a rich, yet always incomplete, picture of Asakusa in the reader's mind. Drawing both on intertextual references to contemporary accounts of Asakusa and on concrete references to touchstones of the neighborhood, Kawabata created a 'mental map' of Asakusa that would have differed for each reader, similar to characterizations of the neighborhood as a place that always escaped total capture in description. In this, The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa is emblematic not only of Asakusa but of the written form itself.
- Is Part Of:
- Japan forum. Volume 30:Issue 1(2018)
- Journal:
- Japan forum
- Issue:
- Volume 30:Issue 1(2018)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 30, Issue 1 (2018)
- Year:
- 2018
- Volume:
- 30
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2018-0030-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 105
- Page End:
- 131
- Publication Date:
- 2018-01-02
- Subjects:
- Kawabata Yasunari -- Asakusa -- mental map -- film -- Tokyo
Japan -- Periodicals
952 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjfo20/current ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/09555803.2017.1307252 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0955-5803
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- Legaldeposit
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