The Tale of Genji through Contemporary Manga
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-42493-7 (ISBN)
Lynne K. Miyake shows that, through their girls, ladies, Boy Love, boys and young men, and informational comics remediations of the tale, the manga Genjis visually, narratively, and affectively rework male and female gazes; Miyake reveals how they gently inject humor, eroticize, gender flip, queer, and simultaneously re-inscribe and challenge heteronormative gender norms. The first full-length study of Genji manga, this book analyses these adaptations within manga studies and the historical and cultural moments that fashioned and sustained them. It also interrogates the circumscribed, in-group aristocratic society and the consumer and production practices of the Heian society that come full circle in the manga versions.
The Tale of Genji through Contemporary Manga utilizes western queer, feminist, sexuality and gender theory and Japanese cultural practices to illuminate the ways in which the Genji tale redeploys itself. Yet it also provides much needed context and explanation regarding the charges of appropriation of prepubescent (fe)male and gay bodies and the utilization of (sexual) violence mounted against Genji manga—and manga and anime in general once they went global.
Lynne K. Miyake is Emerita Professor of Japanese in the Department of Asian Languages and Literatures and the Asian Studies Program at Pomona College, USA. She has published and presented on The Tale of Genji manga in the U.S. and abroad at conferences, colleges/universities, and at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She is also featured in radio interviews with Ideas with Host Paul Kennedy and On Point with Tom Ashbrook, and on the Annenberg Educational Genji website
List of Characters
Introduction: Setting the Stage for Genji Manga
Part I - Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji
1. Contextualizing The Tale of Genji: The Story, the Period, and the Consumer Producers
2. The Tale of Genji through the Ages: Transpositions, Translations, Cultural Capital, and Interpretative Communities
Part II - Manga's Many Tales of Many Genjis
3. Shojo Girls Manga: Objects of Whose Desire?
4. Boys Love Manga: Appropriating, (Child) Porn-ing, and Queering Male-Male Romances?
5. Ladies Comics: Subjects of Consumption, Production, and Desire
6. Shonen Boys/Seinen Young Men Manga: Male Perspectives Refracted
7. Joho Informational Manga: Educational, Gendered, Global/Domestic Revisionist Soft Power
8. Conclusion: Will the "Real” Genji Please Step Forward?
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 04.07.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan |
| Zusatzinfo | 20 bw illus |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga ► Manga |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-42493-5 / 1350424935 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-42493-7 / 9781350424937 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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