Reading Japan Cool Patterns of Manga Literacy and Discourse

by Ingulsrud, John E.; Allen, Kate

• ISBN13: 9780739127544
• ISBN10: 0739127543
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-02-03
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Japanese animation, video games, and manga have attracted fans around the world. The characters, the stories, and the sensibilities that come out of these cultural products are together called Japan Cool. This is not a sudden fad, but is rooted in manga-Japanese comics-which since the mid-1940s have developed in an exponential way. In spite of a gradual decline in readership, manga still commands more than a third of the publishing output. The volume of manga works that is being produced, and has been through history, is enormous. There are manga publications that attract readers of all ages and genders. The diversity in content attracts readers well into adulthood. Surveys on reading practices have found that almost all Japanese people read manga or have done so at some point in their lives.

Author Biography

John E. Ingulsrud is professor in the Department of International Studies at Meisei University in Tokyo. Kate Allen is professor in the School of Global Japanese Studies at Meiji University in Tokyo.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. vii
List of Tables	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Manga in the Discourse of Japan Cool	p. 1
The Nature of Manga Discourse	p. 23
Manga in the History of Literacy	p. 69
The Literacy Practices of Reading Manga	p. 93
Strategies for Comprehending Manga	p. 127
Reasons for Reading Manga	p. 147
The Effects of Literacy	p. 173
Appendix	p. 205
Glossary	p. 209
Bibliography	p. 211
Index	p. 225
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