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Alice in Japanese Wonderlands - Translation, Adaptation, Mediation (Hardcover)
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Alice in Japanese Wonderlands - Translation, Adaptation, Mediation (Hardcover)
Series: Asia Pop!
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Since the first translations of Lewis Carroll’s Alice books
appeared in Japan in 1899, Alice has found her way into nearly
every facet of Japanese life and popular culture. The books have
been translated into Japanese more than 500 times, resulting in
more editions of these works in Japanese than any other language
except English. Generations of Japanese children learned English
from textbooks containing Alice excerpts. Japan’s internationally
famous fashion vogue, Lolita, merges Alice with French Rococo
style. In Japan Alice is everywhere—in manga, literature, fine
art, live-action film and television shows, anime, video games,
clothing, restaurants, and household goods consumed by people of
all ages and genders. In Alice in Japanese Wonderlands, Amanda
Kennell traverses the breadth of Alice’s Japanese media
environment, starting in 1899 and continuing through 60s
psychedelia and 70s intellectual fads to the present, showing how a
set of nineteenth-century British children’s books became a vital
element in Japanese popular culture. Using Japan’s myriad
adaptations to investigate how this modern media landscape
developed, Kennell reveals how Alice connects different fields of
cultural production and builds cohesion out of otherwise disparate
media, artists, and consumers. The first sustained examination of
Japanese Alice adaptations, her work probes the meaning of Alice in
Wonderland as it was adapted by a cast of characters that includes
the "father of the Japanese short story," Ryūnosuke Akutagawa; the
renowned pop artist Yayoi Kusama; and the best-selling manga
collective CLAMP. While some may deride adaptive activities as mere
copying, the form Alice takes in Japan today clearly reflects
domestic considerations and creativity, not the desire to imitate.
By engaging with studies of adaptation, literature, film, media,
and popular culture, Kennell uses Japan’s proliferation of Alices
to explore both Alice and the Japanese media environment.
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Imprint: |
University of Hawaii Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Asia Pop! |
Release date: |
July 2023 |
Authors: |
Amanda Kennell
• Allison Alexy
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
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Pages: |
277 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8248-9444-3 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-8248-9444-8 |
Barcode: |
9780824894443 |
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