Overview

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 Kōno, 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 dessinées 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.

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Author:   Roman Rosenbaum (University of Sydney, Australia)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.394kg
ISBN:  

9780367617899

ISBN 10:   0367617897
Pages:   298
Publication Date:   29 April 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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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:Sensō 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 Kōno 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 (心): Civic epistemology of self-knowledge in Japanese war-themed manga 14. Conclusion"

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Roman Rosenbaum PhD is an Honorary Associate at the University of Sydney Australia. He specialises in Postwar Japanese Literature and Popular Cultural Studies. He is the editor of Representation of Japanese History in Manga (2013) and Visions of Precarity in Japanese Popular Culture and Literature (2015).

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