| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 173 pages) : color illustrations |
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East Asian Popular Culture |
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East Asian popular culture (New York, N.Y.)
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| Contents |
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Interrogating the Text from the Wrong Perspective -- My Life in Shōjo Manga -- A Brief Overview of Shōjo Manga History -- From Sailor Moon to Steven Universe -- References -- Chapter 2: Short Skirts, Superpowers, and the Evolution of the Beautiful Fighting Girl -- Consuming Bishōjo, Consuming Narrative -- Fighting for Love and Justice: The Female Fans of Sailor Moon -- It Can't End Like This: Breaking the Bishōjo Mold in Magic Knight Rayearth -- References |
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Chapter 3: The Maiden and the Witch: CLAMP's Subversion of Female Character Tropes -- Pure Hearts and Sparkling Eyes: The Rise of the Shōjo -- Taking Back the Shōjo: Innocence and Experience in Tsubasa and xxxHolic -- Postfeminism and Posthumanity in Chobits -- References -- Chapter 4: Queering the Media Mix: The Female Gaze in Japanese Fancomics -- Shōjo Manga and the Female Gaze -- The Uke/Seme Dynamic -- Performing Textual Masculinity, Inscribing Textual Femininity -- Fujoshi and the Power of Female Fans -- References |
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Chapter 5: Beautiful War Games: Transfiguring Genders in Video Game Fancomics -- Big Swords and Sexy Boss Battles: Homosocial Rivalries in Final Fantasy VII -- Transcultural Fandom and Video Game Character Designs -- "Linkle Is Not Enough" -- References -- Chapter 6: Link Is Not Silent: Queer Disability Positivity in Fan Readings of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild -- Ability, Disability, and Gaming -- Queering the Link to the Player -- Links Between Subcultural Narratives -- A Link to a Wider World -- References -- Chapter 7: The Cultural Cross-Pollination of Shōjo Manga |
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Forging a Female Audience: The Rise, Fall, and Legacy of Tokyopop -- The Potential of Female Homotextuality -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
The female gaze is used by writers and readers to examine narratives from a perspective that sees women as subjects instead of objects, and the application of a female gaze to male-dominated discourses can open new avenues of interpretation. This book explores how female manga artists have encouraged the female gaze within their work and how female readers have challenged the male gaze pervasive in many forms of popular media. Each of the chapters offers a close reading of influential manga and fancomics to illustrate the female gaze as a mode of resistant reading and creative empowerment. By employing a female gaze, professional and amateur creators are able to shape and interpret texts in a manner that emphasizes the role of female characters while challenging and reconfiguring gendered themes and issues. Kathryn Hemmann received a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and is the author of numerous essays on Japanese fiction, graphic novels, and video games. They also run the blog Contemporary Japanese Literature (japaneselit.net), which features reviews of fiction in translation and posts on gender, society, and popular culture |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebook Central, viewed June 3, 2021) |
| Subject |
Comic books, strips, etc. -- Social aspects -- Japan
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Women in literature.
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Feminism in literature.
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Women in literature
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Feminism in literature
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Comic books, strips, etc. -- Social aspects
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Japan
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783030180959 |
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3030180956 |
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