Passionate friendship : the aesthetics of girls' culture in Japan /
Explores shojo manga, romance comics for teenage girls, by reviewing Japanese girls' print culture from its origins in 1920s and 1930s girls' literary magazines to the 1970s 'revolution' in shojo manga, when young women artists took over the genre. It looks at the narrative and a...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
©2011.
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| Summary: | Explores shojo manga, romance comics for teenage girls, by reviewing Japanese girls' print culture from its origins in 1920s and 1930s girls' literary magazines to the 1970s 'revolution' in shojo manga, when young women artists took over the genre. It looks at the narrative and aesthetic features of girls' literature and illustration across the twentieth century and discusses how these texts addressed and formed a reading community of girls. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 volume) |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780824861117 0824861116 0824836383 9780824836382 0824835425 9780824835422 0824870638 9780824870638 |