JPN/EAS 380
Text and Image in
Japanese Literature
Weeks 8 ~ 15

Rebecca Salter, "Board Games," pp. 164-182 from Japanese Popular Prints
Susanne Formanek, "The 'Spectacle' of Womanhood," pp. 73-99

Sepp Linhart, "Kawaraban: Enjoying the news when the news was forbidden," pp. 231-248
Sepp Linhart, "Shinbun nishiki-e, Nishiki-e shinbun," pp. 341-355

Schodt, Manga Manga, "Western Styles," pp. 38-54
Koyama-Richard, Excerpts from Thousand Years of Manga, pp. 99-135
Gravett, "Japanese Spirit, Western Learning," pp. 18-23

Excerpts from Eric Nash, Manga kamishibai, pp. 12-39, 74-97
Sharalyn Orbaugh, "Kamishibai and the Art of the Interval ," pp. 78-100

Mikhailova, "Intellectuals, Cartoons, and Nationalism," pp. 155-176
Inouye, "Nationalism and Discourse on the Role ofWartime Manga," pp. 20-35

Shimizu, "Red Comic Books: The Origins of Modern Japanese Manga," pp. 137-149
Gravett, "From a Darker Place," pp. 38-51
Rosenbaum, "The Gekiga Tradition: Towards a Graphic Rendition of History," pp. 1-16

Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics pp. 2-59
Robert C. Harvey, "Comedy at the Juncture of Word and Image," pp. 75-96

Charles Hatfield, "An Art of Tensions," pp. 132-147
Pascal Lefevre, "The Construction of Space in Comics," pp. 157-161
Jan Baetans, "Revealing Traces: A New Theory of Graphic Enunciation," pp. 145-155

Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics pp. 60-93
Robert S. Petersen, "The Acoustics of Manga," pp. 163-170
Natsume Fusanosuke, "Komatopia," pp. 65-72

Ingulsrud & Allen, "The Nature of Manga Discourse," pp. 23-61
Jaqueline Berndt, "Considering Manga Discourse," pp. 295-309
Neil Cohn, "Japanese Visual Language: The Structure of Manga," pp. 187-201 (optional)

Gravett, "The Father Storyteller," pp. 24-37
Power, "Movie in a Book," pp. 38-65
Phillips, "Characters, Themes, and Narrative Patterns," pp. 68-90
Excerpt from Osamu Tezuka, "Phoenix," Schodt pp. 160-187

Ingulsrud & Allen, "Basic Categories of Manga - Age and Gender," pp. 7-18
Gravett, "Boys are Forever," pp. 52-73
Itô Gô, "Tezuka is Dead," pp. 69-79

Gravett, "Through a Woman's Eyes," pp. 74-95
Takahashi, "Opening the Closed World of Shojo Manga," pp. 114-136
Shamoon, "Situating the Shojo in Shojo Manga," pp. 147-153
Excerpt from Ikeda Riyoko, "Rose of Versailles," Schodt pp. 215-237

Wednesday, November 27th - Thanksgiving Break - No Class

Tsutsui, excerpts from Japanese Popular Culture and Globalization, pp. 35-57
Mouer and Norris, "Exporting Japan's Culture," pp. 352-354, 360-367
Sell, "Manga Translation and Interculture," pp. 93-106

Azuma Hiroki, "The Otaku's Pseudo-Japan," pp. 3-24
Saitô Tamaki, "Otaku Sexuality," pp. 222-247
Murakami Takashi, "Earth in My Window," pp. 99-149