The Tale of Genji through Contemporary Manga (Paperback)

Language: English

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London, 2026

135042496X / 9781350424968

Series: Book 1 of 1 - SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan

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Paperback. This groundbreaking study examines the unlikely merger of two Japanese cultural phenomena, an 11th-century aristocratic text and contemporary manga comics. It explores the ways in which the manga versions of The Tale of Genji use gender, sexuality, and desire to challenge perceptions of reading and readership, morality and ethics, and what is translatable from one culture to another.Lynne K. Miyake shows that, through their girls, ladies, Boy Love, boys and young men, and informational comics remediations of the tale, the manga Genjis visually, narratively, and affectively rework male and female gazes; Miyake reveals how they gently inject humor, eroticize, gender flip, queer, and simultaneously re-inscribe and challenge heteronormative gender norms. The first full-length study of Genji manga, this book analyses these adaptations within manga studies and the historical and cultural moments that fashioned and sustained them. It also interrogates the circumscribed, in-group aristocratic society and the consumer and production practices of the Heian society that come full circle in the manga versions.The Tale of Genji through Contemporary Manga utilizes western queer, feminist, sexuality and gender theory and Japanese cultural practices to illuminate the ways in which the Genji tale redeploys itself. Yet it also provides much needed context and explanation regarding the charges of appropriation of prepubescent (fe)male and gay bodies and the utilization of (sexual) violence mounted against Genji mangaand manga and anime in general once they went global. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

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Title
The Tale of Genji through Contemporary Manga (Paperback)
Author
Lynne K. Miyake
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London
Publication year
2026
Condition
new
Binding
Paperback
Language
English
ISBN 10
135042496X
ISBN 13
9781350424968
Series
Book 1 of 1: SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan

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