Mechademia 10: World Renewal

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Mechademia 10: World Renewal
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Frenchy Lunning
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:272
Dimensions(mm): Height 254,Width 178
Category/GenreThe arts - general issues
Electronic, holographic and video art
ISBN/Barcode 9780816699155
Audience
General
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations 72

Publishing Details

Publisher University of Minnesota Press
Imprint University of Minnesota Press
Publication Date 20 December 2015
Publication Country United States

Description

"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 "tOrO 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."

Author Biography

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.