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001 2012010549
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008 120319s2012 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2012010549
020 $a9780415694230 (hardback)
020 $z9780203097816 (ebook)
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050 00 $aNC1764.8.H57$bM36 2012
082 00 $a741.5/952$223
084 $aCGN004050$aHIS003000$2bisacsh
245 00 $aManga and the representation of Japanese history /$cedited by Roman Rosenbaum.
250 $a1 [edition].
260 $aNew York :$bRoutledge,$c2012.
263 $a1210
300 $apages cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aRoutledge contemporary Japan series ;$v44
520 $a"This edited collection explores how graphic art and in particular Japanese manga represent Japanese history. The articles explore the representation of history in manga from disciplines that include such diverse fields as literary studies, politics, history, cultural studies, linguistics, narratology, and semiotics. Despite this diversity of approaches all academics from these respective fields of study agree that manga pose a peculiarly contemporary appeal that transcends the limitation imposed by traditional approaches to the study and teaching of history. The representation of history via manga in Japan has a long and controversial historiographical dimension. Thereby manga and by extension graphic art in Japanese culture has become one of the world's most powerful modes of expressing contemporary historical verisimilitude. The strategy of combining the narrative elements of writing with graphic art, the extensive narrative story-manga and its Western equivalent of the graphic novel, reflects the relatively new soft power of 'global' media, which have the potential to display history in previously unimagined ways. Boundaries of space and time in manga become as permeable as societies and cultures across the world. Each of the articles in this book investigates the authorship of history by looking at various different attempts to render Japanese history through the popular cultural media of the story-manga. As Carol Gluck, Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Susan Napier and others have shown, it has never been easy to encapsulate the complex narrative of emperor-based cyclical Japanese historical periods. The contributors to this volume elaborate how manga and by extension graphic art rewrites, reinvents and re-imagines the historicity and dialectic of bygone epochs in postwar/contemporary Japan. "--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"This edited collection explores how graphic art and in particular Japanese manga represent Japanese history"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
650 0 $aHistory in art.
650 0 $aComic books, strips, etc.$zJapan$xThemes, motives.
650 0 $aArt and society$zJapan$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aArt and society$zJapan$xHistory$y21st century.
650 7 $aCOMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Manga / General.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aHISTORY / Asia / General.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aRosenbaum, Roman,$eeditor of compilation.