Publisher: Libraries Unlimited (Santa Barbara, CA)
ISBN: 978-1-59158-908-2
Contents:
Perper, Timothy & Cornog, Martha. Introduction to a semiotic revolution: It may not be Kansas any more but it is the Kansai (pp. xv-xx).
Part I: Art in Contexts
- Ito, Kinko. Chikai Ide, the queen of Japanese ladies’ comics: Her life and manga (pp. 3-19).
- Shamoon, Deborah. Films on paper: Cinematic narrative in gekiga (pp. 21-36).
- Benzon, William. Dr. Tezuka’s ontology laboratory and the discovery of Japan (pp. 37-51).
- Jackson, Paul. Heirs and graces – Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit in the realm of Japanese fantasy (pp. 53-67).
Part II: Fanships and Art
- Lunning, Frenchy. Cosplay, drag, and the performance of abjection (pp. 71-88).
- Brenner, Robin & Wildsmith, Snow. Love through a different lens: Japanese homoerotic manga through the eyes of American gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and other sexualities readers (pp. 89-118).
- McHarry, Mark. Girls doing boys doing boys: Boys’ love, masculinity, and sexual identities (pp. 119-133).
- Drazen, Patrick. Reading right to left: The surprisingly broad appeal of manga and anime; or, “wait a minute” (pp. 135-147).
Part III: Politics
- Penney, Matthew. Manga from right to left (pp. 151-171).
- Palmer, Ada. All life is genocide: The philosophical pessimism of Osamu Tezuka (pp. 173-190).
- Lamarre, Thomas. Believe in comics: Forms of expression in Barefoot Gen (pp. 191-207).
- Pellitteri, Marco. Cultural politics of J-culture and “soft power”: Tentative remarks from a European perspective (pp. 209-236).
Perper, Timothy & Cornog, Martha. Afterword: It isn’t the Kansai anymore, either (pp. 237-238).