Rewriting History in Manga

Stories for the Nation
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-55478-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 191 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3745 g

Reihe: East Asian Popular Culture

This book analyzes the role of manga in contemporary Japanese political expression and debate, and explores its role in propagating new perceptions regarding Japanese history.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Suter, Rebecca

Otmazgin, Nissim

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Museumskunde, Materielle Kultur, Erinnerungskultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtspolitik, Erinnerungskultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.- 1 Introduction: Manga as “Banal Memory”.- Part I: Historicizing Political Manga.- 2 Kitazawa Rakuten as Popular Culture Provocateur: Modern Manga Images and Riotous Democracy in Early Twentieth-Century Japan.- 3 Early Meiji Manga: the Political Cartoons of Kanagaki Robun and Kawanabe Kyôsai.- Part II: Postwar Manga as History.- 4 Bodies of Anger: Atomic Survivors in Nakazawa Keiji’s Hit By Black Rain Manga.- 5 Redacting Japanese History: Ishinomori Shotaro’s Graphic Narratives.- 6 Manga, History and Telling Stories of the Past: Narrative Strategies in Shanaô Yoshitsune.- Part III: Decoding and Recoding History: Manga Reception and Parody.- 7 Decoding “Hate the Korean Wave” and “Introduction to China”: A Case Study of Japanese University Students.- 8 History as Sexualized Parody: Love and Sex Between Nation in Axis Power Hetalia.- Conclusion: Reassessing Manga History, Resituating Manga in History

Über Autor(innen)

Nissim Otmazgin is Senior Lecturer and Chair of the Department of Asian Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He is the author ofRegionalizing Culture: the Political Economy of Japanese Popular Culture in Asia (2014).

Rebecca Suter is Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies and Chair of Comparative and International Literary Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. She is the author of The Japanization of Modernity: Murakami Haruki between Japan and the United States (2008) and Holy Ghosts: The Christian Century in Modern Japanese Fiction (2015).