This book analyzes the role of manga (Japanese comics) within contemporary Japanese public discourse, and explores its role in propagating new perceptions regarding Japanese history. Through the analysis of a variety of cases studies ranging from nineteenth century magazines to contemporary online comics and fandom, it focuses on the representations and interpretations of history in manga, and clarifies this medium's interrelation with historical memory and political debate. Stories for the Nation delineates alternative modes of historical memory and expression as they are manifested and contested in manga, and argues for manga's potential to influence the historical and political views of wide audiences in Japan.

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Nissim Otmazgin is Senior Lecturer and Chair of the Department of Asian Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He is the author ofRegionalizing Culture: the Political Economy of Japanese Popular Culture in Asia (2014).

Rebecca Suter is Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies and Chair of Comparative and International Literary Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. She is the author of The Japanization of Modernity: Murakami Haruki between Japan and the United States (2008) and Holy Ghosts: The Christian Century in Modern Japanese Fiction (2015).

Klappentext
This book analyzes the role of manga (Japanese comics) within contemporary Japanese public discourse, and explores its role in propagating new perceptions regarding Japanese history. Through the analysis of a variety of cases studies ranging from nineteenth century magazines to contemporary online comics and fandom, it focuses on the representations and interpretations of history in manga, and clarifies this medium's interrelation with historical memory and political debate. Stories for the Nation delineates alternative modes of historical memory and expression as they are manifested and contested in manga, and argues for manga's potential to influence the historical and political views of wide audiences in Japan.

Zusammenfassung
This book analyzes the role of manga in contemporary Japanese political expression and debate, and explores its role in propagating new perceptions regarding Japanese history.

Inhalt
Preface.- 1 Introduction: Manga as Banal Memory.- Part I: Historicizing Political Manga.- 2 Kitazawa Rakuten as Popular Culture Provocateur: Modern Manga Images and Riotous Democracy in Early Twentieth-Century Japan.- 3 Early Meiji Manga: the Political Cartoons of Kanagaki Robun and Kawanabe Kyôsai.- Part II: Postwar Manga as History.- 4 Bodies of Anger: Atomic Survivors in Nakazawa Keiji's Hit By Black Rain Manga.- 5 Redacting Japanese History: Ishinomori Shtar's Graphic Narratives.- 6 Manga, History and Telling Stories of the Past: Narrative Strategies in Shanaô Yoshitsune.- Part III: Decoding and Recoding History: Manga Reception and Parody.- 7 Decoding Hate the Korean Wave and Introduction to China: A Case Study of Japanese University Students.- 8 History as Sexualized Parody: Love and Sex Between Nation in Axis Power Hetalia.- Conclusion: Reassessing Manga History, Resituating Manga in History