1st Edition
North Korean Graphic Novels Seduction of the Innocent?
List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Seduction of the innocent? Kurimchaek as entertainment, education, harmful media, political propaganda and beyond
Part One: History, media and regime
Chapter One: A short history of North Korea and kurimchaek
Chapter Two: Post-1998 North Korean graphic novels
Chapter Three: Father, Mother and Son: One family, one nation, one medium
Part Two: Seduction of the reader
Chapter Four: A society in crisis? From The Arduous March to a New Deal
Chapter Five: The downfall of a model citizen? Family background as plot tension and policy discord
Chapter Six: Sleepless in the DPRK: Graphic negotiations of ‘family’ in The True Identity of ‘Pear Blossom’
Chapter Seven: Patriots behind enemy lines: Hyperreality and excess in graphic novels about war
Part Three: Reading for the reader
Chapter Eight: Reading for the North Korean reader I: Media framing of comics consumption in contemporary DPRK
Chapter Nine: Reading for the North Korean reader II: Comics in children’s literature and refugee reminiscences
Final panel: Seduction of the innocent?
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Martin Petersen is a Senior Researcher at the National Museum of Denmark
