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07 Ott 2022 17:30

Eromanga Ecologies: Reading "Hentai" in the World

Online

Caitlin Casiello, PhD Student, Yale University
Introduced by Vincenzo Morgese

Abstract
Japan’s global popular culture exports have long included sexually-explicit media, works which, through their movement across cultures, bring into question the boundaries of what a society considers to be acceptable expressions of desire. Sexually-explicit works from 19th century shunga woodblock prints to contemporary “Adult Video” pornography have comprised a significant avenue for the spread of information about Japan and the creation of an exoticized/eroticized “Japan” (often “weird” or “perverted”) in the minds of international consumers. Eromanga, as the sexually-explicit or pornographic form of manga, have been particularly influential given the centrality of manga to the anime/comic/games media mix. These works, long overlooked in academic study, are an essential part of “otaku” fan culture both in Japan and globally, as a space where the sexual desire implied in manga art can be made explicit. This talk uses eromanga as a productive medium for exploring the semiotics of manga/comics form—how do we read manga?—while arguing for the necessity of continued attention to works, such as pornography, considered to be beyond the extremes of social acceptability. 

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Please book by 8pm, 6 October 2022.

Organized by Vincenzo Morgese, Student Association GESSHIN. Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

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Department of Asian and North African Studies (Bonaventura Ruperti), Student Association GESSHIN - Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

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