Name: The Tale of Genji through Contemporary Manga. Challenging Gender and Sexuality in Japan
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Author: Professor Emerita Lynne K. Miyake
ISBN: 9781350424968

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The Tale of Genji through Contemporary Manga. Challenging Gender and Sexuality in Japan

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic

Author

Professor Emerita Lynne K. Miyake

Collection

SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan

Year

2026

Pages

264

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23.40 x 15.60 cm

ISBN13

9781350424968

The Tale of Genji through Contemporary Manga. Challenging Gender and Sexuality in Japan

Professor Emerita Lynne K. Miyake (Author) · Bloomsbury Academic · Paperback

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Synopsis "The Tale of Genji through Contemporary Manga. Challenging Gender and Sexuality in Japan"

This groundbreaking study examines the unlikely merger of two Japanese cultural phenomena, an 11th-century aristocratic text and contemporary manga comics. It explores the ways in which the manga versions of The Tale of Genji use gender, sexuality, and desire to challenge perceptions of reading and readership, morality and ethics, and what is translatable from one culture to another. Lynne K. Miyake shows that, through their girls, ladies, Boy Love, boys and young men, and informational comics remediations of the tale, the manga Genjis visually, narratively, and affectively rework male and female gazes; Miyake reveals how they gently inject humor, eroticize, gender flip, queer, and simultaneously re-inscribe and challenge heteronormative gender norms. The first full-length study of Genji manga, this book analyses these adaptations within manga studies and the historical and cultural moments that fashioned and sustained them. It also interrogates the circumscribed, in-group aristocratic society and the consumer and production practices of the Heian society that come full circle in the manga versions. The Tale of Genji through Contemporary Manga utilizes western queer, feminist, sexuality and gender theory and Japanese cultural practices to illuminate the ways in which the Genji tale redeploys itself. Yet it also provides much needed context and explanation regarding the charges of appropriation of prepubescent (fe)male and gay bodies and the utilization of (sexual) violence mounted against Genji manga—and manga and anime in general once they went global.