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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContents
Introduction. Manga Life: Tezuka . . .Thomas Lamarre
Nonhuman Life
“Becoming-Insect Woman”: Tezuka’s Feminist SpeciesMary A. KnightonDiary of an Insect Shôjo’s Vagabond LifeTezuka OsamuTranslated by Mary A. KnightonTezuka Osamu’s Circle of Life: Vitalism, Evolution, and BuddhismG. Clinton GodartAtom Came from Bugs: The Precocious Didacticism of Tezuka Osamu’s Essays in Insect IdlenessLinda H. ChanceOn the Fabulation of a Form of Life in the Drawn Line and Systems of ThoughtVerina GfaderThe Metamorphic and Microscopic in Tezuka Osamu’s Graphic NovelsChristine L. Marran
Media Life
Where Is Tezuka?: A Theory of Manga ExpressionNatsume FusanosukeTranslated by Matthew YoungPhoenix 2772: A 1980 Turning Point for Tezuka and AnimeRenato Rivera RuscaCopying AtomuMarc SteinbergTokiwasou StoryAkatsuka FujioTranslated by Matthew Young
A Life in Manga
Toward a Theory of “Artist-Manga”: Manga Self-Consciousness and the Transforming Figure of the ArtistYorimitsu HashimotoTranslated by Baryon Tensor PosadasManga Shônen: Katô Ken’ichi and the Manga BoysRyan HolmbergImplicating Readers: Tezuka’s Early Seinen MangaHideaki FujikiTezuka’s Anime Revolution in ContextJonathan ClementsDesigning a WorldFrederik L. SchodtUnicoAnno MoyokoTranslated by Matthew Young
Everyday Life
An Unholy Alliance of Eisenstein and Disney: The Fascist Origins of Otaku CultureÔtsuka EijiTranslated by Thomas LamarreOsamu Moet Moso: Imagining Lines of Eroticism in AkihabaraPatrick W. GalbraithTezuka, Shôjo Manga, and Hagio MotoHikari HoriOut of Death, an Atomic Consecration to Life: Astro Boy and Hiroshima’s Long ShadowAlicia GibsonWolf Head in PhoenixToshiya Ueno
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