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Manga and the Representation of Japanese History

Rosenbaum, Roman

2013,2012

Overview

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 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 and contemporary Japan. Manga and the Representation of Japanese History will be of interest to students and scholars of Asian studies, Asian history, Japanese culture and society, as well as art and visual culture

• Publisher: Routledge,Taylor and Francis,Taylor & Francis Group
• Subject: 20th century / 21st century / Art & Visual Culture / Art and society / Art and society -- Japan -- History -- 20th century / Art and society -- Japan -- History -- 21st century / Asian / Comic books, strips, etc / Comic books, strips, etc. -- Japan -- Themes, motives / History / History in art / Japan / Japanese Culture & Society / Japanese History / Themes, motives
• ISBN: 9781138857407, 1138857408, 041569423X, 9780415694230