Women’s Manga in Asia and Beyond
Uniting Different Cultures and Identities
Editors: Ogi, F., Suter, R., Nagaike, K., Lent, J.A. (Eds.)
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- Brings together academics and women's manga creators in the same volume
- Offers a diversity of theoretical and empirical approaches to the study of manga
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- About this book
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Women’s Manga in Asia and Beyond offers a variety of perspectives on women’s manga and the nature, scope, and significance of the relationship between women and comics/manga, both globally as well as locally. Based on the activities since 2009 of the Women’s MANGA Research Project in Asia (WMRPA), the edited volume elucidates social and historical aspects of the Asian wave of manga from ever-broader perspectives of transnationalization and glocalization. With a specific focus on women’s direct roles in manga creation, it illustrates how the globalization of manga has united different cultures and identities, focusing on networks of women creators and readerships.
Taking an Asian regional approach combined with investigations of non-Asian cultures which have felt manga’s impact, the book details manga’s shift to a global medium, developing, uniting, and involving increasing numbers of participants worldwide. Unveiling diverse Asian identities and showing ways to unite them, the contributors to this volume recognize the overlaps and unique trends that emerge as a result. - About the authors
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Fusami Ogi is Professor in the Department of English at Chikushi Jogakuen University, Japan. She has been a leader of the Women’s MANGA Research Project in Asia since 2009.
Rebecca Suter is Associate Professor and Chair in the Japanese Studies Department at The University of Sydney, Australia. Her main research interests are in modern Japanese literature and popular culture, particularly manga.
Kazumi Nagaike is Professor at the Global Education and Intercultural Advancement Center (GAIA) at Oita University, Japan. She is author of Fantasies of Cross-dressing: Japanese Women Write Male-Male Erotica (2012).
John A. Lent pioneered in the study of mass communication and popular culture in Asia (since 1964) and Caribbean (since 1968), comic art and animation, and development communication. He has authored or edited eighty-two books. He is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Comic Art.
- Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Japanese Homoerotic Manga in Taiwan: Same-Sex Love and Utopian Imagination
Pages 5-23
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Hailing the Subject: Visual Progression and Queer Reading in Nananan’s Blue
Pages 25-38
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Queering Democracy Activism and Online Obscenities: Hong Kong Women’s Boys’ Love Protest
Pages 39-51
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Pleasurable Interplay in the 2.5-Dimensional World: Women’s Cosplay Performances in Singapore and the Philippines
Pages 53-68
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Fudanshi (“Rotten Boys”) in Asia: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Male Readings of BL and Concepts of Masculinity
Pages 69-84
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Women’s Manga in Asia and Beyond
- Book Subtitle
- Uniting Different Cultures and Identities
- Editors
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- Fusami Ogi
- Rebecca Suter
- Kazumi Nagaike
- John A. Lent
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-97229-9
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-97229-9
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-97228-2
- Series ISSN
- 2634-6370
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXXI, 366
- Number of Illustrations
- 109 b/w illustrations
- Topics
