The Tale of Genji through Contemporary Manga

Name: The Tale of Genji through Contemporary Manga
Brand: Bloomsbury Academic
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By Miyake, Lynne K.

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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 manga-and manga and anime in general once they went global.

Product details

Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 260
Release Date:: 2026-01-22
Publication Date:: 2026-01-22
Publisher:: Bloomsbury Academic
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 135042496X
ISBN13:: 9781350424968
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 401 g
Height:: 156 cm
Width:: 234 cm
Thickness:: 14 cm

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