Mechademia 10: World Renewal (Mechamedia) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0816699151 ISBN 13: 9780816699155

Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2015

Synopsis

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 tôrô 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.”

About this title

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0816699151
• ISBN 13: 9780816699155
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Lunning Frenchy