The representation of Japanese politics in manga : the visual literacy of statecraft
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The representation of Japanese politics in manga : the visual literacy of statecraft
(Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asia series, 20)
Routledge, 2021
- : hbk
Available at 14 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This edited volume explores political motives, discourses and agendas in Japanese manga and graphic art with the objective of highlighting the agency of Japanese and wider Asian story-telling traditions within the context of global political traditions. Highly illustrated chapters presented here investigate the multifaceted relationship between Japan's political storytelling practices, media and bureaucratic discourse, as played out between both the visual arts and modern pop-cultural authors. From pioneering cartoonist Tezuka Osamu, contemporary manga artists such as Kotobuki Shiriagari and Fumiyo Kono, to videogames and everyday merchandise, a wealth of source material is analysed using cross-genre techniques. Furthermore, the book resists claims that manga, unlike the bandes dessinees and American superhero comic traditions, is apolitical. On the contrary, contributors demonstrate that manga and the mediality of graphic arts have begun to actively incorporate political discourses, undermining hegemonic cultural constructs that support either the status quo, or emerging brands of neonationalism in Japanese society. The Representation of Politics in Manga will be a dynamic resource for students and scholars of Japanese studies, media and popular cultural studies, as well as practitioners in the graphic arts.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction 2. Re-envisioning the Dark Valley and the Decline of the Peace State 3. Kobayashi Yoshinori's Just War and Unjust Peace:Senso ron, Arrogant-ism, and Selective Memory 4. "Sexual Politics: Pan-Pan Girls in Postwar Manga and Magazine Illustrations" 5. NEETs vs. Nuns: Visualizing the Moral Panic of Japanese Conservatives 6. The Body Political: Women and War in Kantai Collection 7. Towards an Unrestrained Military: Manga Narratives of the Self-Defense Forces 8. The political representation of Hiroshima in the Graphic Art of Kono Fumiyo 9. "What Tezuka Might Tell Trump: Critiquing Japanese Uniqueness in Gringo" 10. Questioning the politics of popular culture: Tatsuta Kazuto's manga 1F and the national discourse on 3/11 11. Database Nationalism: The Disaggregation of Nation, Nationalism, and Symbol in Pop Culture 12. Envisioning Nuclear Futures: Shiriagari Kotobuki's 3/11 manga from Hope to Despair 13. Kokoro ( ): Civic epistemology of self-knowledge in Japanese war-themed manga 14. Conclusion
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