Graphic Narratives from Early Modern Japan

The World of Kusazōshi
approx. 600 pp.
ISBN: 978-90-04-50410-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 77, 634 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 1406 g

Reihe: Brill's Japanese Studies Library

Part of a formidable publishing industry, cheap yet eye-catching graphic narratives consistently charmed early modern Japanese readers for around two hundred years. These booklets were called kusazoshi (“grass books”).
Graphic Narratives from Early Modern Japan is the first English-language publication of its kind. It enables anyone new to kusazoshi to gain comprehensive knowledge of the field. For the specialist, our edited volume marks a turning point in scholarship, uncovering fresh research avenues.
While exploring the powerful effects of the visual-verbal imagination, this collection opens up bold new vistas on the act of reading and advances provocations around comics and manga.
Contributors are: Jaqueline Berndt, Joseph Bills, Michael Emmerich, Adam L. Kern, Fumiko Kobayashi, Frederick Feilden, Laura Moretti, Matsubara Noriko, Sato Satoru, Sato Yukiko, Satoko Shimazaki, Takagi Gen, Tanahashi Masahiro, Ellis Tinios, Tsuda Mayumi and, Glynne Walley.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moretti, Laura

Yukiko, Sat&

Yukiko, Sato

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Design Graphic Novel & Manga (Design)
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur

Über Autor(innen)

Laura Moretti, Ph.D. (2003) is Professor of Early Modern Japanese Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge. She has published widely in English and Japanese, including Pleasure in Profit: Popular Prose in Seventeenth-Century Japan (Columbia University Press, 2020).

Sato Yukiko, Ph.D. (2000) is Professor at The University of Tokyo. She is one of the leading scholars working on early modern Japanese graphic narratives. She has several publications, including Edo no e’iri shosetsu: Gokan no sekai (Perikansha, 2001).