Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-235) and index
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CONTENTS; Chapter 11. Full Metal Apache: Shinya Tsukamoto's Tetsuo Diptych, or The Impact of American Narratives on the Japanese Representation of Cyborgian Identity; Foreword Larry McCaffery; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Anatomies of Dependence; Part One Theory; Chapter 1. Mikadophilia, or The Fate of Cyborgian Identity in the Postmillenarian Milieu; Chapter 2. Comparative Metafiction: Somewhere between Ideology and Rhetoric; Part Two History; Chapter 3. Virus as Metaphor: A Postorientalist Reading of the Future War Novels of the 1890s
Chapter 4. Deep North Gothic: A Postoccidentalist Reading of Hearn, Yanagita, and AkutagawaChapter 5. Which Way to Coincidence?: A Queer Reading of J. G. Ballard's Crash; Chapter 6. A Manifesto for Gynoids: A Cyborg Feminist Reading of Richard Calder; Part Three Aesthetics; Chapter 7. Semiotic Ghost Stories: The Japanese Reflection of Mirrorshades; Chapter 8. Junk Art City, or How Gibson Meets Thomassonin Virtual Light; Chapter 9. Pax Exotica: A New Exoticist Perspective on Audrey, Anna-chan, and Idoru; 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 MandarinPart Five Representation; Conclusion-Waiting for Godzilla: Toward a GlobalistTheme Park; Appendix 1: Toward the Frontiers of ''Fiction'': From Metafiction and Cyberpunk, through Avant-Pop-The Correspondence between Takayuki Tatsumi and Larry McCaffery; Appendix 2: A Dialogue with the Nanofash Pygmalion: An Interview with Richard Calder; Notes; Works Cited; Index
