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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460072203321

Autore

Saitò„ Tamaki <1961->

Titolo

Beautiful fighting girl [[electronic resource] /] / Saitò„ Tamaki ; translated by J. Keith Vincent and Dawn Lawson ; commentary by Hiroki Azuma

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis [Minn.], : University of Minnesota Press, 2011

ISBN

1-4529-4610-8

0-8166-7657-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (242 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

VincentKeith <1968->

LawsonDawn

AzumaHiroki <1971->

Disciplina

741.5/3524220952

Soggetti

Comic books, strips, etc - Japan - History and criticism

Women in popular culture - Japan

Girls in popular culture - Japan

Girls in literature - Japan

Girls in art - Japan

Popular culture - Japanese influences

Animated films - Japan - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; A Note on the Translation; Translator's Introduction: Making It Real: Fiction, Desire, and the Queerness of the Beautiful Fighting Girl; BEAUTIFUL FIGHTING GIRL; Afterword to the First Edition (2000); Afterword to the Paperback Edition (2006); Commentary: The Elder Sister of Otaku: Japan's Database Animals; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

From Cutie Honey and Sailor Moon to Nausica? of the Valley of the Wind, the worlds of Japanese anime and manga teem with prepubescent girls toting deadly weapons. Sometimes overtly sexual, always intensely cute, the beautiful fighting girl has been both hailed as a feminist icon and condemned as a symptom of the objectification of young women in Japanese society. In Beautiful Fighting Girl, Sait?



Tamaki offers a far more sophisticated and convincing interpretation of this alluring and capable figure. For Sait?, the beautiful fighting girl is a complex sexual fantasy that paradoxically lends re