Josef Steiff and Tristan D. Tamplin, Ed. Anime and Philosophy. Chicago: Open Court, 2010. Ada Palmer It is a healthy sign that, as both the economy and the publishing industry shrink, books on anime and manga continue to proliferate. The design of a manga syllabus was once little more than a […]
Yearly Archives: 2012
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Jennifer S. Prough. Straight from the Heart: Gender, Intimacy, and the Cultural Production of Shōjo Manga. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2011. Deborah Shamoon There was a time when all scholarly writing on manga and anime had to begin with a disclaimer explaining their importance and significance for uninformed Western readers. […]
Moon, Michael. Darger’s Resources. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. J. Keith Vincent Henry Darger (1892-1973) was a reclusive Chicago janitor who spent six decades writing and illustrating a sprawling, 15,145-page narrative about seven glamorous and gutsy little girls leading a child slave rebellion against an evil empire. By all indications Darger […]