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November 4, 2009
Call for papers for special edition of _Japanese Studies_ (Australia)
Representation of Japanese history in manga
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Representation of Japanese history in manga
Call for Papers Deadline: 2009-12-31
Date Submitted: 2009-11-01
Announcement ID: 171671
The editor is looking for contributions to a special edition of the
Australian journal "Japanese Studies" and potentially a future book
proposal.
The purpose of this special edition is to collect and publish scholarly
articles on issues relating to the potential of manga to shape the
portrayal of Japanese history. We are looking for contributions from a
variety of disciplines, including but not limited to literary studies,
politics, history, cultural studies, linguistics, narratology, and
semiotics. The special edition will focus on the graphical representation
of Japanese history.
Nowadays the academia increasingly pays attention to the softpower
potential of manga in popular cultural representation. Tessa Morris-Suzuki
has argued in The Past Within Us that historical truthfulness encompasses
a shared social responsibility, which is increasingly jeopardised by the
power of media to mould peoples unconscious sense of the structure and
meaning of world history. The representation of history via manga in Japan
has a long and controversial historiographical dimension. Manga and by
extension graphic art in Japanese culture has become one of the worlds
most powerful modes of expressing historical verisimilitude.
In particular, the Japanese tradition of the story-manga and its Western
equivalent of the graphic novel, manifest the best and worst aspects of
this global media, which has the potential to display history in
previously unimagined ways. Boundaries of space and time in manga become
as permeable as societies and cultures across the world. This special
journal edition will investigate the authorship of history by looking at
various different attempts to render pre-modern/modern history through the
popular cultural media of the story-manga. As Carol Gluck, Tessa
Morris-Suzuki, Susan Napier and others have shown, it has never been easy
to encapsulate the complex narrative of emperor-based Japanese historical
periods. How do manga and by extension graphic art rewrite, reinvent and
re-imagine the historicity and dialectic of bygone epochs in
postwar/contemporary Japan?
We are seeking contributions from academics and experts interested in the
representation of history.
The deadline for proposals is: 31 December 2009.
Please email a 300 word abstract (for a paper length of 6000-8000 words)
and a short biography as an attached word document to Roman Rosenbaum at:
r.rosenbaum@records.usyd.edu.au
Roman Rosenbaum
University of Sydney
School of Languages and Culture - Japanese Studies
Phone: +61 2 862 78250
Fax: +61 2 862 78284
Email: r.rosenbaum@records.usyd.edu.au
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