Abstract
I. Readings of Barefoot Gen
Barefoot Gen in Japan: an attempt at media history / Itō Yū and Omote Tomoyuki
Barefoot Gen in the US and UK: activist comic, graphic novel, manga / Roger Sabin
Nudpieda Gen - Hadashi no Gen in an international speech community / Sabine Fiedler
Barefoot Gen and Maus: performing the masculine, reconstructing the mother / Ōgi Fusami
- II. Depictions of history in Japanese comics
History as faction: historiography within Japanese comics as seen through Tezuka Osamu's manga Adolf / Bettina Gildenhard
'Adult' manga: Maruo Suehiro's historically ambiguous comics / Jaqueline Berndt
Glimpses of the past: the allegedly authentic samurai spirit as seen through Kozure ōkami (Lone wolf and cub)
- III. Reading manga beyond Japan
Japan's growing cultural power: manga in France / Jean-Marie Bouissou
The roses of coconino: reading the shōjo in Krazy Kat / Jens Balzer
Overlooked by comics experts: the artistic potential of manga as revealed by a close reading of Nananan Kiriko's Kuchizuke / Pascal Lefèvre
Domesticating manga? national identity in Korean comics culture / Yamanaka Chie
Reading Reading manga: personal reflections by a Japanologist / Steffi Richter.
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