Book Details

Title:

Manga Bomb: between the lines of Barefoot Gen


Author:LaMarre, Thomas
Place:Kyoto
Publisher:International Manga Research Center, Kyoto Seika University
Year:2010
Included in:Comics worlds and the world of comics: towards scholarship on a global scale
Page:262-306

Reference:

LaMarre, Thomas. Manga Bomb: between the lines of Barefoot Gen . [in:] Comics worlds and the world of comics: towards scholarship on a global scale. , , . Pp. 262-306


Categories:

Juvenile Literature

Languages:

English

Description:

(Global manga studies, 1) This is a research paper on Keiji Nakazawa’s Barefoot Gen, a popular Japanese war manga series, by Thomas Mark LaMarre, a Japanologist and a faculty member of McGill University, Montreal. LaMarre discusses how Keiji Nakazawa depicts the atomic bomb, war, and trauma using a conventional manga style.