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Transgressing Death in Japanese Popular Culture

Transgressing Death in Japanese Popular Culture

Cesar, Miguel

Hardcover

General Graphic NovelsGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 303050879X
ISBN13: 9783030508791
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Published: Aug 28 2020
Pages: 138
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.38 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
This book focuses on the theme of the transgression of life and death boundaries through its representation in Japanese contemporary visual media, more specifically in the manga Fullmetal Alchemist, the animated film Journey to Agartha, and the computer game Shadow of the Colossus. By addressing how the theme was constructed by three different media and what these texts say about it, the book focuses on the narrativization of Japanese ontological anxieties. The book argues that, although these texts deal with matters of afterlife through fantasy worlds, the content of their stories, the archetypes of their characters, and their existential journeys echo contextually-situated conversations. Matters of gender, societal structure and, most of all, the tensions between individuality and sociocentrism not only permeate but structure the interrogation of our relation to the afterlife. This book stands to contribute significantly to media studies, literarystudies, and Japanese studies.

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