If the source of manga and anime is physically located in Japan,
the temptation for many critics and scholars is to ask what aspects
of Japanese culture and history gave rise to these media. This
ninth volume of "Mechademia"--an annual collection of critical work
on anime and manga--challenges the tendency to answer the question
of origins by reductively generalizing and essentializing
"Japaneseness."
The essays brought together in "Mechademia 9" lead us to
understand the extent to which "Japan" might be seen as an idea
generated by anime, manga, and other texts rather than the other
way around. What is it that manga and anime produce that no other
medium can precisely duplicate? Is anime its own medium or a genre
of animation--or something in between? And how must we adapt
existing critical modes in order to read these new kinds of texts?
While the authors begin with similar questions about the roots of
Japanese popular culture and media, they invoke a wide range of
theoretical work in the search for answers, including feminist
criticism, disability studies, poststructuralist textual criticism,
postcolonialism, art history, film theory, phenomenology, and more.
Richly provocative and insightful, "Mechademia 9" both enacts and
resists the pursuit of fixed starting points, inspiring further
creative investigation of this global artistic phenomenon.
Contributors: Stephen R. Anderson; Dale K. Andrews, Tohoku
Gakuin U; Andrew Ballus; Jodie Beck; Christopher Bolton, Williams
College; Kukhee Choo, Tulane U; Ranya Denison, U of East Anglia;
Lucy Fraser; Fujimoto Yukari, Meiji U, Japan; Forrest Greenwood;
Imamura Taihei; Seth Jacobowitz, Yale U; Kim Joon Yang; Thomas
Lamarre, McGill U; Margherita Long, U of California, Riverside;
Matsumoto Nobuyuki, Tokyo National Museum; Laura Miller, U of
Missouri-St. Louis; Alexandra Roedder; Paul Roquet, Stanford U;
Brian Ruh; Shun'ya Yoshimi, U of Tokyo; Alba G. Torrents.
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