Disenchanting Japan: Japanese Futurity in Neuromancer and the Science Fiction of Masaki Goro

I apply enchantment theory to William Gibson's Neuromancer and several works by the Japanese SF author Masaki Goro to reveal shared assumptions about Japan as the locus of an emergent techno-social hybridity. Both Gibson and Masaki register signs of widespread disenchantment stemming from an in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Garza, James Michael
Other Authors: Gabriel, James P.
Language:EN
Published: The University of Arizona. 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/193331