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The Revenge of the Illegal Asians: Aliens, Gangsters, and Myth in Kon Satoshi's World Apartment Horror

The Revenge of the Illegal Asians: Aliens, Gangsters, and Myth in Kon Satoshi's World Apartment... 13Q : 1993 by Duke University Press. Winter 1993 1. The Genre Horror is in the manga genre, which spans a broad spectrum from children’s comics and four-frame funnies, published in the daily newspapers or in weekly and monthly magazines, to books such as the one we are concerned with here, sophisticated illustrated fiction aimed at adult audiences.’ Manga are so popular in Japan that entire sections and even whole floors of large bookstores have been given over to them. Though manga readership ranges from very young children and teens to middle-aged adults, each agegroup having its own specialized market niche, the manga sections of bookstores are patronized largely by young teens. T h e genre of illustrated fiction is less familiar and accepted in the U.S. than it is in Japan, and so requires some preliminary discussion here. Apart from a very few “serious” works like Art Speigelman’s Maus, equivalent genres in the U.S. suffer under an atmosphere of general moralistic censure as being at best too childish and frivolous to be truly “serious” literature, and at worst a form of evil degeneracy unsuitable even for decent adults, let alone for children. Ever since the appearance of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png positions asia critique Duke University Press

The Revenge of the Illegal Asians: Aliens, Gangsters, and Myth in Kon Satoshi's World Apartment Horror

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Duke University Press
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Copyright 1993 by Duke University Press
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1067-9847
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1527-8271
DOI
10.1215/10679847-1-3-677
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13Q : 1993 by Duke University Press. Winter 1993 1. The Genre Horror is in the manga genre, which spans a broad spectrum from children’s comics and four-frame funnies, published in the daily newspapers or in weekly and monthly magazines, to books such as the one we are concerned with here, sophisticated illustrated fiction aimed at adult audiences.’ Manga are so popular in Japan that entire sections and even whole floors of large bookstores have been given over to them. Though manga readership ranges from very young children and teens to middle-aged adults, each agegroup having its own specialized market niche, the manga sections of bookstores are patronized largely by young teens. T h e genre of illustrated fiction is less familiar and accepted in the U.S. than it is in Japan, and so requires some preliminary discussion here. Apart from a very few “serious” works like Art Speigelman’s Maus, equivalent genres in the U.S. suffer under an atmosphere of general moralistic censure as being at best too childish and frivolous to be truly “serious” literature, and at worst a form of evil degeneracy unsuitable even for decent adults, let alone for children. Ever since the appearance of

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Published: Dec 1, 1993

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