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Mangatopia : essays on manga and anime in the modern world
Explores what Japanese manga and anime mean to artists, audiences, and fans in the U.S. and elsewhere, covering topics that range from fantasy to sex to politics.
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Erotophobia, Homophobia, and Censorship in U.S. Libraries: An Historical Overview
How U.S. libraries have dealt with books having sex-related content has evolved markedly over the past century. In the early 1900s, some sex education materials were bought and circulated, but literature and fiction dealing with sex tended to be labeled \"immoral,\" thought to promote bad or lawless behavior. By the 1920s, attitudes and policies had begun to liberalize, a trend that escalated through the 1960s partly in relation to passage of the Library Bill of Rights in 1939. Books discussing homosexuality, however, tended to remain stigmatized. In 1970, the ALA Task Force on Gay Liberation was founded; and while some stigma persisted, gay-themed books became more accepted over the next three decades. Since 2000, librarian attitudes have matched and even run ahead of the culture at large in terms of stocking books with sexual and homosexual content, and retaining titles against challenges. Certainly in the last decade, numerous collection development articles and reviews relating to sexuality and homosexuality have appeared in the library literature. Cultural exposure, scholarly knowledge, and social familiarity have reduced stigma about formerly taboo sex practices, including homosexuality, and this trend has both influenced and been influenced by libraries.
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Visual Retellings
How many times have we read or watched or listened, imagining the story playing out as a graphic novel? It is not a unique feeling. Classics Illustrated adaptations broke ground in 1941. Today, thousands of comics adapt books, short stories, epic poems, plays, musical productions, political documents, TV shows, essays—even podcasts. Some hold fast to their inspiration, while others alter setting and characters, such as a new spin on the classic story of Frankenstein or a surrealistic take on a Greek tragedy with a mostly animal cast.
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Q&A|Whitney Sanderson, Interlink Books
Q&A|Whitney Sanderson, Interlink Books Interlink publisher and Lebanon native Michel Moushabeck told the publishing services company BookBlast® last February, \"The founding of Interlink afforded me the unique opportunity to merge my passion for Arabic literature-in-translation and the arts with the house's mission of changing the way people think about the world.\" [...]the last decade or two has been the era of the graphic novel, which has come into its own as a literary genre, on par with traditional novels, poetry, and memoir. Techniques such as chiaroscuro and negative space--which Sulaiman uses so effectively in Freedom Hospital --can impact people emotionally in a way that bypasses linguistic and cultural differences, which makes it ideal for telling the global stories that Interlink seeks to bring to U.S. readers.
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Q&A Resist
Fowler lined up comics guru Françoise Mouly (Blown Covers: New Yorker Covers You Were Never Meant To See) and her writer-daughter Nadja Spiegelman (I'm Supposed To Protect You from All This) to serve as guest editors. The New Yorker's art editor for more than 20 years, Mouly is publisher, editorial director, and senior designer of TOON Books, and with Art Spiegelman, founded the influential comics periodical RAW. Nadja has penned several kid-magnet graphic novels as well as her memoir about mother-daughter bonds. The RESIST! issue of Smoke Signal will be distributed free at the January 20 Inauguration, the Women's March on Washington the following day (see resistsubmission.com), and elsewhere around the country. Comics are made by hand--you see the handwriting, the pencil lines of the artist--it's personal, there's a sense of intimacy. [...]we got images of mouths shouting the word \"NO!\" and then images of fighting back, pens raised, arms...
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Love Literacy in Libraries
Love Literacy in Libraries Cassandra Black met her husband online, inspiring her and colleague Mary Frances Frayne to put on an online dating workshop in February 2016 at the Belmont Library, CA. D.J. Digianantonio, head of reference/teen services at Rodman Public Library, Alliance, OH, also offered online dating instruction in February. Beyond personal experience, librarians relied on sources including the Pew Research Center, the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, the Online Dating Association, the FBI, and advice sections within dating sites.
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Eroticism for the masses: Japanese manga comiss and their assimilation into the U.S
In this article, we describe translated Japanese comics or \"manga\" with sexual content. Because in the West comics have been treated as junk culture, they lack canons for critical analysis. We have developed methods for analyzing manga that focus on objective assessment of content, on reader subjectivity, and on how the emotional tenor of the artwork is created. We briefly review some history of Japanese art and culture, in which sexuality has always been a legitimate subject for art and which forms the cultural underpinnings of manga. We summarize the erotic themes and visions of manga with sexual content, including heterosexual courtship and consummation, female and male homosexuality, sadomasochism, transvestitism, incest, and bestiality. Critics of manga argue that it glorifies rape, a view we could not confirm. We identified 87 stories with rape or sexual assault; 80 (92.0%) show the woman or others taking violent, often murderous, revenge on sexual attackers. We also analyze visual modalities for depicting men and women. In common with older Japanese aesthetic traditions, the manga we have seen depict women as beautiful, powerful, and erotic. Finally, we suggest that manga functions as an art form by mobilizing the reader's involvement with the characters, especially female characters, in a complex narrative framework in which sexuality is a positive virtue for men and, especially, for women. We conclude that manage contains some of the finest erotic art being produced in the world today for sheer power, elegance, and drama.[PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
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