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- Title
Horror and Machines in Prewar Japan: The Mechanical Uncanny in YUMENO Kyûsaku's Dogura magura.
- Authors
Nakamura, Miri
- Abstract
The popular genre known as "irregular detective fiction" (henkaku tantei shôsetsu), the forerunner of Japanese science fiction, flourished in Japan during the 1920s and the 1930s. Yumeno Kyusaku's "Dogura magura" (1935) is a representative work of this group of texts and is perceived as the culmination of the author's literary career. For Yumeno, the mode of horror was an essential ingredient for his detective fiction, and in "Dogura magura," this horror arises from what I refer to as "the mechanical uncanny"—the blurring of the line between human and machine resulting from the "mechanization" of human cognition.
- Subjects
KYUSAKU, Yumeno; DOGURA Magura (Book); MYSTERY fiction
- Publication
Science Fiction Studies, 2002, Vol 29, Issue 3, p364
- ISSN
0091-7729
- Publication type
Literary Criticism