"""Mechademia 10 ""revolves around a maelstrom of events: the devastation of 3/11--the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear reactor crises--and the ongoing environmental disasters that have recently overtaken Japan. Because anime and manga have long proposed (and illustrated) alternative worlds--some created after catastrophes--it is fitting that this volume should consider this propensity for ""world renewal.""Individual essays range widely, from a poetic and personal reflection on the ritual of ""tOrO nagashi ""(the lighting of floating paper lanterns that has traditionally commemorated souls lost in great public cataclysms, such as war) to a study of the various counterfactual histories written about the historical figure of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, a former peasant farmer who became a military dictator of feudal Japan. The book also includes an original manga, ""Nanohana,"" from the popular artist Hagio Moto, who is quoted as saying: ""I want to think together with everyone else about Fukushima and Chernobyl, about the future of the Earth, about the future of humankind, and to keep thinking moving forward."""
Edited by:
Frenchy Lunning
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 254mm,
Width: 178mm,
Spine: 38mm
Weight: 522g
ISBN: 9780816699155
ISBN 10: 0816699151
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 01 March 2016
Audience:
General/trade
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Professional and scholarly
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ELT Advanced
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Contents Second Arc Acknowledgments Introduction: Counterfactual Histories, Parallel Universes, and Possible Worlds Frenchy Lunning Part I. Passages of As Not Between Disaster, Medium 3.11 Akira Mizuta Lippit The Land of Hope: Planetary Cartographies of Fukashima, 2012 Christophe Thouny Tokyo Apparatus (Version 1.0) Sabu Kohso Good Morning: A Post-Disaster Palm-of-the-Hand Story Hoshino Tomoyuki, translated by Brian Bergstrom Part II. Positions of What If Record of Dying Days: The Alternate History of Ôoku Andrea Horbinski Deconstructing the Taikô: The Problem of Hideyoshi as Postwar Business Model Susan W. Furukawa A Nation Restored: The Utopian Future of Japan's Far Right Matthew Penney Nanohana Moto Hagio, translated by Matt Thorn, and introduction by Frenchy Lunning Part III. Worlds of As If Beyond the Horizon of the Possible Worlds: An Historical Overview of Japanese Media Franchises Saito Satomi What Can a Vocaloid Do?: The Kyara as Body without Organs Sandra Annett A World Without Pain: Therapeutic Robots and the Analgesic Imagination Steven R. Anderson Part IV. Loops of Just Then The Girl at the End of Time: Temporality, (P)remediation, and Narrative Freedom in Puella Magi Madoka Magica Forrest Greenwood Animated Nature: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Empathy in Hayao Miyazaki's Ecophilosophy Pamela Gossin Ominous Image of Youth: Worlds, Identities, and Violence in Japanese News Media and When They Cry Brett Hack Parallel Universes, Vertical Worlds, and the Nation as Palimpsest in Murakami Ryû's The World Five Minutes from Now Kendall Heitzman Contributors Index
Frenchy Lunning is professor of liberal arts at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Contributors: Steven R. Anderson; Sandra Annett, Wilfrid Laurier U; Brian Bergstrom, McGill U; Susan W. Furukawa, Beloit College; Pamela Gossin, U of Texas–Dallas; Forrest Greenwood, Indiana U, Bloomington; Brett Hack, Aichi Prefectural U; Moto Hagio; Kendall Heitzman, U of Iowa; Andrea Horbinski, U of California, Berkeley; Sabu Kohso; Akira Mizuta Lippit, U of Southern California; Matthew Penney, Concordia U, Montreal; Saito Satomi, Bowling Green State U; Matt Thorn, Kyoto Seika U; Christopher Thouny; Hoshino Tomoyuki.
