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.
Table of Content
Section I. Rethinking Women, Queering Asia.- 1. Japanese Homoerotic Manga in Taiwan: Same-Sex Love and Utopian Imagination – Fran Martin.- 2. Hailing the Subject: Visual Progression and Queer Reading in Nananan’s Blue – Monica Chiu.- 3. Queering Democracy Activism and Online Obscenities: Hong Kong Women’s Boys’ Love Protest – Katrien Jacob.- 4. Pleasurable Interplay in the 2.5-Dimensional World: Women’s Cosplay Performances in Singapore and the Philippines – Akiko Shimada-Sugawa.- 5. Fundanshi (“Rotten Boys”) in Asia: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Male Readings of BL and Concepts of Masculinity – Kazumi Kagaike.- 6. Writing Boys’ Love Comics in the Philippines – Scott Wu Ming.- Section II. Transnationalization/Globalization in Women and Shōjo Manga.- 7. How Women’s Manga Has Performed the Image of ASIAs, Globally and Locally – Fusami Ogi.- 8. Saving the World with Tiny Little Boxes – Ace Vitangcol.- 9. Environmental and Cultural Influences on an Artist – FSc.- 10. Recentering Australia in the Shōjo Imagination – Rebecca Suter.- 11. Manga in Australia – Madeleine Rosca.- 12. Manga and Shakespeare – Yukari Yoshihara.- 13. Yoko Tsuno and Franco-Belgian Girl Readers of Bande Dessinée – Jessica Bauwens.- 14. Matsumoto Katsuji: Modern Tomboys and Early Shōjo Manga – Ryan Holmberg.- Section III. Asian Women Comics Artists and Their Careers.- 15. Chinese Women Cartoonists: A Brief, Generational Perspective – John A. Lent and Xu Ying.- 16. Reading the Fifty Years of Popularity of Theresa Lee Wai-chun and Her Comic, 13-Dot Cartoon: Changing Identities of Women in Hong Kong – Wendy Siuyi Wong.- 17. A Conversation with Theresa Lee, the Creator of Miss 13 Dogs – Theresa Lee Wai-chun (interviewed by Connie Lam of HK Arts Centre).- 18. Witness to a Transition: The Manga of Kyoko Okazaki and the Feminine Self in the Shift toward “Flat Culture” in Japanese Consumer Society – Takeshi Hamano.- 19. Reviving the Power of Storytelling: Post-3/11 Online‘Amateur’ Manga – Shige (CJ) Suzuki.- 20. Comics-Prose: Evolving Manga in the 21st Century – Queenie Chan.- 21. Manga in Hong Kong – Stella So.
About the author
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.
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