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Reframing Disability in Manga / Yoshiko Okuyama.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (238 p.) : 15 b&w illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780824883225
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 741.5/952 23
LOC classification:
  • PN6790.J3 O38 2020
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Conventions -- PART I. REPRESENTATION OF DISABILITY: Past and Present Perspectives -- CHAPTER 1. Theorizing Disability -- CHAPTER 2. Media and Disability -- PART II. REFRAMING DISABILITY IN THE IMAGINED WORLD OF MANGA -- CHAPTER 3. Portrayals of Deaf Characters -- CHAPTER 4. Gender and the Wheelchair -- CHAPTER 5. Narratives of Blindness -- CHAPTER 6. Heterogeneity of Autism -- CHAPTER 7. Gender Identity Disorder/Gender Dysphoria -- Afterword -- Appendix. Manga Mentioned in This Book -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary: Reframing Disability in Manga analyzes popular Japanese manga published from the 1990s to the present that portray the everyday lives of adults and children with disabilities in an ableist society. It focuses on five representative conditions currently classified as shōgai (disabilities) in Japan—deafness, blindness, paraplegia, autism, and gender identity disorder—and explores the complexities and sociocultural issues surrounding each. Author Yoshiko Okuyama begins by looking at preindustrial understandings of difference in Japanese myths and legends before moving on to an overview of contemporary representations of disability in popular culture, uncovering sociohistorical attitudes toward the physically, neurologically, or intellectually marked Other. She critiques how characters with disabilities have been represented in mass media, which has reinforced ableism in society and negatively influenced our understanding of human diversity in the past. Okuyama then presents fifteen case studies, each centered on a manga or manga series, that showcase how careful depictions of such characters as differently abled, rather than disabled or impaired, can influence cultural constructions of shōgai and promote social change. Informed by numerous interviews with manga authors and disability activists, Okuyama reveals positive messages of diversity embedded in manga and argues that greater awareness of disability in Japan in the last two decades is due in part to the popularity of these works, the accessibility of the medium, and the authentic stories they tell. Scholars and students in disability studies will find this book an invaluable resource as well as those with interests in Japanese cultural and media studies in general and manga and queer narrative and anti-normative discourse in Japan in particular.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Conventions -- PART I. REPRESENTATION OF DISABILITY: Past and Present Perspectives -- CHAPTER 1. Theorizing Disability -- CHAPTER 2. Media and Disability -- PART II. REFRAMING DISABILITY IN THE IMAGINED WORLD OF MANGA -- CHAPTER 3. Portrayals of Deaf Characters -- CHAPTER 4. Gender and the Wheelchair -- CHAPTER 5. Narratives of Blindness -- CHAPTER 6. Heterogeneity of Autism -- CHAPTER 7. Gender Identity Disorder/Gender Dysphoria -- Afterword -- Appendix. Manga Mentioned in This Book -- Notes -- References -- Index

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Reframing Disability in Manga analyzes popular Japanese manga published from the 1990s to the present that portray the everyday lives of adults and children with disabilities in an ableist society. It focuses on five representative conditions currently classified as shōgai (disabilities) in Japan—deafness, blindness, paraplegia, autism, and gender identity disorder—and explores the complexities and sociocultural issues surrounding each. Author Yoshiko Okuyama begins by looking at preindustrial understandings of difference in Japanese myths and legends before moving on to an overview of contemporary representations of disability in popular culture, uncovering sociohistorical attitudes toward the physically, neurologically, or intellectually marked Other. She critiques how characters with disabilities have been represented in mass media, which has reinforced ableism in society and negatively influenced our understanding of human diversity in the past. Okuyama then presents fifteen case studies, each centered on a manga or manga series, that showcase how careful depictions of such characters as differently abled, rather than disabled or impaired, can influence cultural constructions of shōgai and promote social change. Informed by numerous interviews with manga authors and disability activists, Okuyama reveals positive messages of diversity embedded in manga and argues that greater awareness of disability in Japan in the last two decades is due in part to the popularity of these works, the accessibility of the medium, and the authentic stories they tell. Scholars and students in disability studies will find this book an invaluable resource as well as those with interests in Japanese cultural and media studies in general and manga and queer narrative and anti-normative discourse in Japan in particular.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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