1st Edition
Manga and the Representation of Japanese History
Foreword by Professor John A. Lent 1. The Representation of Japanese History in Manga Roman Rosenbaum 2. Sabotaging the Rising Sun: Representing History in Tezuka Osamu’s Phoenix Rachael Hutchinson 3. Reading Showa History through Manga: Astro Boy as the avatar of postwar Japanese culture Roman Rosenbaum 4. Representations of Gendered Violence in Manga: The Case of Enforced Military Prostitution Erik Ropers 5.Maruo Suehiro’s ‘Planet of the Jap’: Revanchist Fantasy or War Critique? Rachel DiNitto and Peter Luebke 6. Making History Herstory: Nelson’s Son and Siebold’s Daughter in Japanese Shōjo Manga Ulrich Heinze 7. Heroes and Villains: Manchukuo in Yasuhiko Yoshikazu’s "Rainbow Trotsky" Emer O’Dwyer 8. Making History – Manga Between Kyara and Historiography Matthew Penney 9. Postmodern Representations of the Pre-modern Edo Period Paul Sutcliffe 10. ‘LAND OF KAMI, LAND OF THE DEAD:’ Paligenesis and the Aesthetics of Religious Revisionism in Kobayashi Yoshinori’s ‘Neo-Gômanist Manifesto: On Yasukuni’ James Mark Shields 11. Hating Korea, Hating the Media – Manga Kenkanryû and the Graphical (Mis-) Representation of Japanese History in the Internet Age Raffael Raddatz 12. Towards a Summation: How do manga represent history? Roman Rosenbaum
Biography
Roman Rosenbaum is an Honorary Associate of the University of Sydney, Australia and the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto, Japan.
