Envisioning the Shôjo Aesthetic in Illustrations of Miyazawa Kenji’s Literature.

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Envisioning the Shôjo Aesthetic in Illustrations of Miyazawa Kenji’s Literature.

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Despite an ever-growing body of scholarship on the shôjo (girl) in manga and anime, little has been written about representations of the ‘girl’ in Japanese picture books. Shôjo literature and culture have grown exponentially in Japan since about the 1980s, but there has been a tendency in popular media to overemphasise the 'cute', disempowering aspects of the ‘girl’. By using Takahara Eiri's (1999) concept of “girl consciousness” and Honda Masuko's (1992) envisioning of the girl’s imagined fr...

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2013-01-01

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Helen Claire Kilpatrick

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PORTAL: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies

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http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/portal/article/view/2136

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Miyazawa Kenji / Gender / Shôjo literature / Shôjo art / Girl consciousness / liminality. / Colonies and colonization / Emigration and immigration / International migration / Sociology (General)

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