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Women’s Manga in Asia and Beyond

Uniting Different Cultures and Identities

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Nominated for Best Academic/Scholarly Work at the 2020 Eisner Awards
  • Includes representation of works from such nations as Australia, China, France/Belgium, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and the United States
  • 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

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels (PSCGN)

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxi
  2. Section II

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-93
    2. Saving the World with Tiny Little Boxes

      • Ace Vitangcol
      Pages 123-126
    3. Environmental and Cultural Influences on an Artist

      • FSc (Foo Swee Chin)
      Pages 127-133
    4. Manga in Australia

      • Madeleine Rosca
      Pages 151-159
    5. Manga and Shakespeare

      • Yukari Yoshihara
      Pages 161-180

About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of English, Chikushi Jogakuen University, Dazaifu, Japan

    Fusami Ogi

  • Japanese Studies Department, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Rebecca Suter

  • Global Education and Intercultural Advancement Center, Oita University, Oita, Japan

    Kazumi Nagaike

  • International Journal of Comic Art, Drexel Hill, PA, USA

    John A. Lent

About the editors

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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