Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: pt. I History, media and regime
  • 1. short history of North Korea and kurimchaek
  • 2. Post-1998 North Korean graphic novels
  • 3. Father, mother and son: one family, one nation, one medium
  • pt. II Seduction of the reader
  • 4. society in crisis? From The Arduous March to a new deal
  • 5. downfall of a model citizen? Family background as plot tension and policy discord
  • 6. Sleepless in the DPRK: graphic negotiations of `family' in The True Identity of `Pear Blossom'
  • 7. Patriots behind enemy lines: hyperreality and excess in graphic novels about war
  • pt. III Reading for the reader
  • 8. Reading for the North Korean reader I: media framing of comics consumption in contemporary DPRK
  • 9. Reading for the North Korean reader II: comics in children's literature and refugee reminiscences.