Takayuki Tatsumi Explained

Takayuki Tatsumi
Native Name:	巽 孝之
Native Name Lang:	jpn
Birth Date:	15 May 1955
Birth Place:	Tokyo, Japan
Alma Mater:	Sophia University, Cornell University
Occupation:	Professor at Keio University

is a Japanese scholar.^[1] He is a professor at Keio University, where he has taught literary theory and American literature since 1989.^[2]

As an avid science fiction fan, he authored many books and essays on science fiction. He received Nihon SF Taisho prize in 2000 for Nihon SF ronsōshi.

Works

Single authorship

• (1988) Saibāpanku amerika (サイバーパンク・アメリカ Cyberpunk America)
• (1992) Gendai SF no retorikku (現代SFのレトリック Rhetoric of Contemporary Science Fiction)
• (1993) Metafikushon no bōryaku (メタフィクションの謀略 / Metafiction as Ideology)
• (1993) Japanoido sengen—gendai nihon SF o yomu tameni (ジャパノイド宣言 / A Manifesto for Japanoids)
• (1995) E. A. Pou o yomu (Ｅ・Ａ・ポウを読む Disfiguration of Genres: A Reading in the Rhetorics of Edgar Allan Poe)
• (1995) Nyū amerikanizumu--beibungaku shisōshi no monogatarigaku (ニュー・アメリカニズム—米文学思想史の物語学 / New Americanist Poetics) (revised 2005)
• (1996) Nyūyōku no seikimatsu (ニューヨークの世紀末 / New York Decadence)
• (1997) Kyōryū no amerika (恐竜のアメリカ Dinosaur and America)
• (1997) "Comparative Metafiction: Somewhere between Ideology and Rhetoric"
• (1998) Nihon henryū bungaku (日本変流文学 / Slipstream Japan)
• (2000) Metafā wa naze korosareru—gendai hihyō kōgi (メタファーはなぜ殺される—現代批評講義 / Metaphor Murders)
• (2006) Full Metal Apache: Transactions Between Cyberpunk Japan and Avant-Pop America

As an editor

• (1991) Saibōgu feminizumu (サイボーグ・フェミニズム Cyborg Feminism) (revised 2001)
• (2000) Nihon SF ronsōshi (日本SF論争史 / Science Fiction Controversies in Japan: 1962–1997)
• (2007) Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime

References

• Web site: http://www.sfwj.or.jp/member/TATSUMI-TAKAYUKI.html . ja:巽　孝之（たつみ　たかゆき） . Japanese . Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Japan . March 6, 2013.

External links

• Tatsumi, Takayuki at Keio University
  • Image of Tatsumi at Flickr

Notes and References

1. An Interview with Darko Suvin. . 36 . 12, part 2 . July 1985 . Takayuki . Tatsumi . 2008-11-26.
2. Web site: Plenary Speaker . IASA 2007. International American Studies Association . 2008-11-26.