Intimate Alienation: Japanese Urban Rail and the Commodification of Urban Subjects

james a. fujii is Associate Professor of Japanese Literature at the University of California, Irvine. The author ofComplicit Fictions: The Subject in Modern Japanese Prose Narrative(University of California Press, 1993), he is presently working on a translated anthology of Maeda Ai's essays and a manuscript examining Japanese urban rail, metropolitan life, and the modern subject.