Full Metal Apache: Transactions Between Cyberpunk Japan and Avant-Pop America

Takayuki Tatsumi

Published by Duke University Press 2006

Full Metal Apache

Transactions Between Cyberpunk Japan and Avant-Pop America

Takayuki Tatsumi
Edited by: Stanley Fish and Fredric Jameson
With contributions by: Larry McCaffery

In the series Post-Contemporary Interventions

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822388012

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About this book

Compares modern science fiction and the avant garde pop scene in America and Japan.

Author / Editor information

Takayuki Tatsumi is Professor of English at Keio University in Tokyo. He is the author of many books in Japanese, including Lincoln’s Bullet; A Reading of 2001: A Space Odyssey; Slipstream Japan; New Americanist Poetics; A Manifesto for Japanoids; Metafiction as Ideology; and Cyberpunk America.

Reviews

“Full Metal Apache [is a] brilliant, paradigm-smashing study by Japan’s hippest literary critic and cultural commentator.” —Larry McCaffery, from the foreword

“Full Metal Apache is a genuinely exciting and powerful text, incredibly rich in both material and ideas. Takayuki Tatsumi’s overall theme is the complex and dense dynamic between Japan and America (and often the West in general), and he investigates this dynamic in ways and with material far fresher and more critically invigorating than a standard analysis of ‘influences’ would be.”—Susan J. Napier, author of Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation

“Full Metal Apache is a marvelous literary mediation of postoriental aesthetics and the transactions of cybercultures. Takayuki Tatsumi cites synchronicity over mimesis, a mighty tease of cultures, and his inspired critique of the chimeric emperor, gaijin fabulations, scrap thieves, ghost stories, and metafiction is extraordinary and masterly.”—Gerald Vizenor, University of California, Berkeley

“I have always thought that Takayuki Tatsumi had (and still has) the most interesting lines into whatever it is that I’ve been doing with fiction, culture, and technology. He showed up before 99 percent of American academics had ever heard of me and seemed immediately to know what I was talking about—often before I did myself.”—William Gibson, author of Pattern Recognition

“This book deserves attention. . . . Full Metal Apache is recommended for science fiction readers who’re willing to look at our genre from a different angle.”

-- Joe Sanders New York Review of Science Fiction

“Tatsumi is a never-less-than-intelligent reader, and a writer who conveys his enthusiasms and the ideas they spark in him with nervy brilliance.”

-- Roz Kaveney TLS

“Tatsumi’s book is a brilliant contribution to the field of pop culture, containing chapters on not only all the usual suspects (Shinya Tsukamoto, J. G. Ballard, William Gibson) but also on the potential of literary theory in a global context, on the relationship between history and aesthetics and on the link between geography and artistic production.”

-- Polina Mackay Journal of American Studies

“There is no doubting Tatsumi’s intimacy with his subject matter as he juggles the orient, the occident, creative masochism, avant-pop, cyberpunk, and Mikadophilia. His ability to keep all these ideas and texts in motion and interacting with one another is impressive and helps illuminate a Japanese cultural marketplace that deserves greater exposure to Western scholars.”

-- Graham Murphy Science Fiction Studies

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Foreword Larry McCaffery Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xxiii
Introduction: Anatomies of Dependence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part One Theory
Chapter 1. Mikadophilia, or The Fate of Cyborgian Identity in the Postmillenarian Milieu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Chapter 2. Comparative Metafiction: Somewhere between Ideology and Rhetoric Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
Part Two History
Chapter 3. Virus as Metaphor: A Postorientalist Reading of the FutureWar Novels of the 1890s Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
Chapter 4. Deep North Gothic: A Postoccidentalist Reading of Hearn, Yanagita, and Akutagawa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Chapter 5. WhichWay to Coincidence?: A Queer Reading of J. G. Ballard’s Crash Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	86
Chapter 6. A Manifesto for Gynoids: A Cyborg Feminist Reading of Richard Calder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
Part Three Aesthetics
Chapter 7. Semiotic Ghost Stories: The Japanese Reflection of Mirrorshades Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
Chapter 8. Junk Art City, or How Gibson Meets Thomasson inVirtual Light Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	112
Chapter 9. Pax Exotica: A New Exoticist Perspective on Audrey, Anna-chan, and Idoru Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
Part Four Performance
Chapter 10. Magic Realist Tokyo: Poe’s ‘‘The Man That Was Used Up’’ as a Subtext for Bartók-Terayama’s Magical Musical The Miraculous Mandarin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
Part Five Representation
Chapter 11. Full Metal Apache: Shinya Tsukamoto’s Tetsuo Diptych, or The Impact of American Narratives on the Japanese Representation of Cyborgian Identity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
Conclusion—Waiting for Godzilla: Toward a Globalist Theme Park Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
Appendix 1: Toward the Frontiers of ‘‘Fiction’’: From Metafiction and Cyberpunk, through Avant-Pop—The Correspondence between Takayuki Tatsumi and Larry McCaffery Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
Appendix 2: A Dialogue with the Nanofash Pygmalion: An Interview with Richard Calder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 272
Illustrations
- Other: 15 photos, 11 figures

eBook

Published: June 27, 2006
ISBN: 9780822388012