Reading Manga: Local and Global Perceptions of Japanese Comics
Since the late 1990s, Japanese comics, or manga, have become
established as a globally-successful print medium. Striving for the
transcultural and transdisciplinary exchange between Japanese manga
researchers, European comics experts, and japanologists, this
anthology addresses itself to readers who take an interest in
cultural, historical, and theoretical reflections on reading manga.
Its first part focuses on the case study of Nakazawa Keiji's
"Barefoot Gen" ("Hadashi no Gen", 1973-1987),
paying special attention to its reception in different cultures.
Because of its subject matter "Barefoot Gen" provokes
explorations of comics' potential to narrate history
realistically which is the object of attention in the second part.
Finally, the third part highlights a variety of topics related to
the impact of manga on other comics cultures. In accordance with
the fact that Comics Studies can be conceptualized only as a
multidisziplinary field research, the contributors to this
anthology deploy a variety of angles:
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