Saito Tamaki, Hiroki Azuma

Beautiful Fighting Girl

Übersetzer: Vincent, J Keith; Lawson, Dawn

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

From Nausicaa to Sailor Moon, understanding girl heroines of manga and anime within otaku culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 217mm x 139mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 303g
• ISBN-13: 9780816654512
• ISBN-10: 0816654514
• Artikelnr.: 32738218

Autorenporträt

Saito Tamaki is a practicing psychiatrist and medical director of the Sofukai Sasaki Hospital in Chiba, Japan. He is the author of more than two dozen books. J. Keith Vincent is assistant professor of Japanese and comparative literature at Boston University.Dawn Lawson is New York University's East Asian studies librarian. Hiroki Azuma is a leading cultural critic in Japan.

Inhaltsangabe

A Note on the Translation
Translator's Introduction J. Keith Vincent
Beautiful Fighting Girl
Preface
1. The Psychopathology of Otaku
2. Letter from an Otaku
3. Beautiful Fighting Girls outside Japan
4. The Strange Kingdom of Henry Darger
5. A Genealogy of the Beautiful Fighting Girl
6. The Emergence of the Phallic Girls
Afterword to the First Edition (2000)
Afterword to the Paperback Edition (2006)
Commentary: The Elder Sister of Otaku: Japan's Database Animals (2006)
Hiroki Azuma
Notes
Index