{"product_id":"the-tale-of-genji-through-contemporary-manga-challenging-gender-and-sexuality-in-japan-paperback","title":"The Tale of Genji through Contemporary Manga: Challenging Gender and Sexuality in Japan - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLynne K. Miyake\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis groundbreaking study examines the unlikely merger of two Japanese cultural phenomena, an 11th-century aristocratic text and contemporary manga comics\u003c\/b\u003e. It explores the ways in which the manga versions of \u003ci\u003eThe Tale of Genji\u003c\/i\u003e use gender, sexuality, and desire to challenge perceptions of reading and readership, morality and ethics, and what is translatable from one culture to another.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLynne K. Miyake shows that, through their girls, ladies, Boy Love, boys and young men, and informational comics remediations of the tale, the \u003ci\u003emanga Genjis\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eGenji manga\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003emanga\u003c\/i\u003e versions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Tale of Genji through Contemporary Manga\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLynne K. Miyake\u003c\/b\u003e is Emerita Professor of Japanese in the Department of Asian Languages and Literatures and the Asian Studies Program at Pomona College, USA. She has published and presented on \u003ci\u003eThe Tale of Genji manga \u003c\/i\u003ein the U.S. and abroad at conferences, colleges\/universities, and at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She is also featured in radio interviews with \u003ci\u003eIdeas with Host Paul Kennedy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOn Point with Tom Ashbrook\u003c\/i\u003e, and on the Annenberg Educational \u003ci\u003eGenji \u003c\/i\u003ewebsite\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.55 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 22, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44765324312662,"sku":"9781350424968","price":69.03,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0720\/7433\/0198\/files\/zngljmQCd39781350424968.webp?v=1779336495","url":"https:\/\/duanes-world-2.myshopify.com\/products\/the-tale-of-genji-through-contemporary-manga-challenging-gender-and-sexuality-in-japan-paperback","provider":"Duane's World","version":"1.0","type":"link"}