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Tojisha Manga Yoshiko Okuyama

Tojisha Manga By Yoshiko Okuyama

Tojisha Manga by Yoshiko Okuyama


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This book defines tojisha manga as Japan's autobiographical comics in which the author recounts the experience of a mental or neurological condition in a unique medium of text and image.

Tojisha Manga Summary

Tojisha Manga: Japan's Graphic Memoirs of Brain and Mental Health by Yoshiko Okuyama

This book defines tojisha manga as Japan's autobiographical comics in which the author recounts the experience of a mental or neurological condition in a unique medium of text and image. Yoshiko Okuyama argues that tojisha manga illuminate otherwise faceless individuals and humanize their invisible tribulations because the first-person narrative makes their lived experience more authentic and relatable to the reader. Part I introduces the evolution of the term tojisha, the tojisha movements, and other relevant social phenomena and concepts. Part II analyzes five representative titles to demonstrate the humanizing power of tojisha manga, drawing on interviews with the authors of these manga and examining how psychological or brain-related symptoms are artistically depicted in approximately 40 drawings. This book is highly recommended to not only scholars of disability studies and comic studies but also global fans of manga who are interested in the graphic memoirs of serious social issues.

About Yoshiko Okuyama

Yoshiko Okuyama is Professor of Japanese studies at the University of Hawai'i at Hilo, USA. Her recent publications include Japanese Mythology in Film: A Semiotic Approach to Reading Japanese Film and Anime (2015) and Reframing Disability in Manga (2020).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Conventions

Preface

Part I: Foundations

Chapter 1: Tojisha

Chapter 2: Tojisha Narratives

Chapter 3: Essay Manga

Part II: Case Studies

Chapter 4: Okita Bakka's Gaki-Tame Series (2011-2013): A Memoir of a Troublemaker Aspie Girl

Chapter 5: Nonami Tsuna's Akira-san Series (2011-2017): A Memoir of a Cassandra Wife

Chapter 6: Tanaka Keiichi's Utsunuke (2017): An Ode to Depression Tojisha .............................................................................................

Chapter 7: Hosokawa Tenten's Tsure utsu Series (2006-2013): A Couple's Lived Experience of Depression

Chapter 8: Shiramizu Sadako's Uchi no OCD (2015): A Collaborative Memoir of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Afterword

Additional information

NPB9783031008399
9783031008399
3031008391
Tojisha Manga: Japan's Graphic Memoirs of Brain and Mental Health by Yoshiko Okuyama
New
Hardback
Springer International Publishing AG
2022-08-31
295
N/A
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