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Please do not make changes directly on the draft text. It causes chaos -- and I speak from experience. Instead, put comments, criticisms, and suggestions below the text under a separate heading. Thanks. Timothy Perper 10:25, 27 September 2008 (CDT)
History of Manga Article
This is a highly modified version of an article I wrote for Wikipedia. It has new material and has been edited substantially.
Introduction
Manga is a Japanese word meaning "comics" or "cartoon." The word itself dates to the late 18th century [1] but stories told in pictures and sometimes words date back to 12th century Japan.[2] Historians and writers on manga history have described two broad and complementary processes shaping modern manga. Their views differ in the relative importance attributed to cultural and historical events following World War II versus the role of pre-War, Meiji, and pre-Meiji Japanese culture and art.
Scholarly Debates about the Origins of Manga
Differences of opinion about how and when manga arose are, in part, arguments over the role of non-Japanese influences, e.g., of the United States, as opposed to older and far more purely Japanese influences in shaping the art of Japan. Because these issues deal with Japanese national pride, they can become quite heated. A summary of scholarly views will help establish the discussion.
Japanese writers like Takashi Murakami have also stressed events after WWII, but Murakami sees Japan's staggering defeat and the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as having created long-lasting scars on the Japanese artistic psyche, which, in this view, lost its previously virile confidence in itself and sought solace in harmless and cute (kawaii) images.[3][4][5] Takayumi Tatsumi also sees a major role for events after World War II, but instead of war, for him a special role exists for a transpacific economic and cultural transnationalism that created a postmodern and shared international youth culture of cartooning, film, television, music, and related popular arts. For Tatsumi, the crucible in which modern manga have developed is post-modernism.[6]
For Murakami and Tatsumi, transnationalism (or globalization) refers specifically to the flow of cultural and subcultural material from one nation to another and to how artistic, aesthetic, and intellectual traditions influence each other across national boundaries.[3][4][6] Another example of cultural transnationalism is the creation of Star Wars films in the United States, their transformation into manga by Japanese artists, and the marketing of Star Wars manga to the United States.[7] Another example is the transfer of hip-hop culture from the United States to Japan.[8] Wong also sees a major role for transnationalism in the recent history of manga.[9]
References and Notes
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- ↑ Ref to come.
- ↑ Schodt, Frederik L. 1986. Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics. Tokyo: Kodansha. ISBN 978-0870117527.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Murakami, Takashi, Curator. 2005. Museum Exhibition: "Little Boy: The Arts of Japan’s Exploding Subculture." Japan Society. New York, New York, April 9 to July 24, 2005.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Murakami, Takashi, Editor. 2005. "Little Boy: The Arts of Japan’s Exploding Subculture." New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-10285-2 and NY:Japan Society. ISBN 0-913304-57-3.
- ↑ Benzon, William. 2007. "Review: Godzilla’s Children: Murakami Takes Manhattan." Mechademia: An Academic Forum for Anime, Manga, and the Fan Arts, 2:283-287.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Tatsumi, Takayumi. 2006. "Full Metal Apache: Transactions between Cyberpunk Japan and Avant-Pop America." Durham, NC: Duke University Press. ISBN 0-8223-3774-6.
- ↑ Star Wars manga: http://www.darkhorse.com/Search/Browse/Star+Wars+Manga/PpwNwkt8 (Accessed September 28, 2008).
- ↑ Condry, Ian. 2006. "Hip-Hop Japan: Rap and the Path of Cultural Globalization." Durham, NC:Duke University Press. ISBN 0-8223-3892-0
- ↑ Wong, Wendy Siuyi. 2006. "Globalizing manga: From Japan to Hong Kong and beyond." Mechademia: An Academic Forum for Anime, Manga, and the Fan Arts, 1:23-45.
Comments and Suggestions
This page is for writing the history manga article starting from the Wikipedia article most of which I wrote and referenced. It needs some major work, including the addition of an entirely new section on manga before WW2 (Meiji and Tokugawa periods, including kibyōshi). The text is taken from my own, stripped-down, de-Wikified version of the original article. Timothy Perper 10:25, 27 September 2008 (CDT)