Vivono fra noi. L’uso del classico come espressione di alterità nella produzione fumettistica giapponese.

Authors

  • Carla Scilabra Università degli Studi di Torino

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13133/2239-1983/13142

Abstract

This paper aims to analyse the presence of figures and themes coming from the Classical heritage in the Japanese manga production. This review focuses mainly on how the manga-artists use such characters in order to identify and depict otherness: the works that are taken under consideration are mainly comics dating to 1970s, in which it is possible to follow an evolution of this production. The Author tries also to present a social and political explication of this phenomenon, based upon a brief analysis of how these theme could be connected to the evolution of the cultural and military relationship between Japan and the West ypical way while the latter are strongly reinterpreted. So the purpose of this paper is to understand the reasons for this different use of the past.

Published

2015-07-21

How to Cite

Scilabra, C. (2015). Vivono fra noi. L’uso del classico come espressione di alterità nella produzione fumettistica giapponese. Status Quaestionis, 1(8). https://doi.org/10.13133/2239-1983/13142

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