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Shojo manga are romance comics for teenage girls. Characterized by a very dense visual style, featuring flowery backgrounds and big-eyed, androgynous boys and girls, it is an extremely popular and prominent genre in Japan. Why is this genre so appealing? Where did it come from? Why do so many of the stories feature androgynous characters and homosexual romance? Passionate Friendship answers these questions by reviewing Japanese girlsâ print culture from its origins in 1920s and 1930s girlsâ literary magazines to the 1970s âœrevolutionâ shojo manga, when young women artists took over the genre. It looks at the narrative and aesthetic features of girlsâ literature and illustration across the twentieth century, both pre- and postwar, and discusses how these texts addressed and formed a reading community of girls, even as they were informed by competing political and social ideologies. The author traces the development of girlsâ culture in preâWorld War II magazines and links it to postw

Passionate Friendships The Aesthetics of Girls

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      Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
      Publication Date: 3/30/2012 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780824836382, 978-0824836382
      ISBN10: 0824836383
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      Book Synopsis
      Shojo manga are romance comics for teenage girls. Characterized by a very dense visual style, featuring flowery backgrounds and big-eyed, androgynous boys and girls, it is an extremely popular and prominent genre in Japan. Why is this genre so appealing? Where did it come from? Why do so many of the stories feature androgynous characters and homosexual romance? Passionate Friendship answers these questions by reviewing Japanese girlsâ print culture from its origins in 1920s and 1930s girlsâ literary magazines to the 1970s âœrevolutionâ shojo manga, when young women artists took over the genre. It looks at the narrative and aesthetic features of girlsâ literature and illustration across the twentieth century, both pre- and postwar, and discusses how these texts addressed and formed a reading community of girls, even as they were informed by competing political and social ideologies. The author traces the development of girlsâ culture in preâWorld War II magazines and links it to postw

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