Horror and Machines in Prewar Japan
The Mechanical Uncanny in Yumeno Kyûsaku's Dogura magura
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4107679 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Miri Nakamura (0000-0003-1379-1123, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | Part 3 |
| Pages | 364-381 |
| Publication date | 2002-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science Fiction Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0091-7729 • E-ISSN: 2327-6207 |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/sfs.29.3.0364 |
| OpenAlex | W4409350674 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
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
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |