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Author:
Saitō, Tamaki, 1961-
Title:
Beautiful fighting girl / Saitō Tamaki ; translated by J. Keith Vincent and Dawn Lawson ; commentary by Hiroki Azuma.
Publisher:
University of Minnesota Press,
Copyright Date:
c2011
Description:
xxv, 213 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Subject:
Comic books, strips, etc.--Japan--History and criticism.
Women in popular culture--Japan.
Girls in popular culture--Japan.
Girls in literature.
Girls in art.
Popular culture--Japanese influences.
Animated films--Japan--History and criticism.
Other Authors:
Vincent, Keith, 1968-
Lawson, Dawn.
Azuma, Hiroki, 1971-
Other Titles:
Sentō bishōjo no seishin bunseki. English
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
A note on the translation -- Translator's introduction: Making it real : fiction, desire, and the queerness of the beautiful fighting girl / J. Keith Vincent -- Preface -- The psychopathology of the Otaku -- Letter from an Otaku -- Beautiful fighting girls outside Japan -- The strange kingdom of Henry Darger -- A genealogy of the beautiful fighting girl -- The emergence of the phallic girls -- Afterword to the first edition (2000) -- Afterword to the paperback edition (2006) -- Commentary. The elder sister of Otaku: Japan's database animals / Hiroki Azuma.
ISBN:
0816654514 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780816654512 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0816654506 (alk. paper)
9780816654505 (alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)683247717
LCCN:
2010047576
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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