Lynne K. Miyake is Emerita Professor of Japanese in the Department of Asian Languages and Literatures and the Asian Studies Program at Pomona College, USA. She has published and presented on The Tale of Genji manga in the U.S. and abroad at conferences, colleges/universities, and at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She is also featured in radio interviews with Ideas with Host Paul Kennedy and On Point with Tom Ashbrook, and on the Annenberg Educational Genji website

A magisterial contribution to the field.

• List of CharactersIntroduction: Setting the Stage for Genji MangaPart I - Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji1. Contextualizing The Tale of Genji: The Story, the Period, and the Consumer Producers2. The Tale of Genji through the Ages: Transpositions, Translations, Cultural Capital, and Interpretative CommunitiesPart II - Manga's Many Tales of Many Genjis3. Shojo Girls Manga: Objects of Whose Desire?4. Boys Love Manga: Appropriating, (Child) Porn-ing, and Queering Male-Male Romances?5. Ladies Comics: Subjects of Consumption, Production, and Desire6. Shonen Boys/Seinen Young Men Manga: Male Perspectives Refracted7. Joho Informational Manga: Educational, Gendered, Global/Domestic Revisionist Soft Power8. Conclusion: Will the "Real” Genji Please Step Forward?BibliographyIndex

Lynne K. Miyake is Emerita Professor of Japanese in the Department of Asian Languages and Literatures and the Asian Studies Program at Pomona College, USA. She has published and presented on The Tale of Genji manga in the U.S. and abroad at conferences, colleges/universities, and at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She is also featured in radio interviews with Ideas with Host Paul Kennedy and On Point with Tom Ashbrook, and on the Annenberg Educational Genji website

A magisterial contribution to the field.

• List of CharactersIntroduction: Setting the Stage for Genji MangaPart I - Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji1. Contextualizing The Tale of Genji: The Story, the Period, and the Consumer Producers2. The Tale of Genji through the Ages: Transpositions, Translations, Cultural Capital, and Interpretative CommunitiesPart II - Manga's Many Tales of Many Genjis3. Shojo Girls Manga: Objects of Whose Desire?4. Boys Love Manga: Appropriating, (Child) Porn-ing, and Queering Male-Male Romances?5. Ladies Comics: Subjects of Consumption, Production, and Desire6. Shonen Boys/Seinen Young Men Manga: Male Perspectives Refracted7. Joho Informational Manga: Educational, Gendered, Global/Domestic Revisionist Soft Power8. Conclusion: Will the "Real” Genji Please Step Forward?BibliographyIndex

Lynne K. Miyake is Emerita Professor of Japanese in the Department of Asian Languages and Literatures and the Asian Studies Program at Pomona College, USA. She has published and presented on The Tale of Genji manga in the U.S. and abroad at conferences, colleges/universities, and at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She is also featured in radio interviews with Ideas with Host Paul Kennedy and On Point with Tom Ashbrook, and on the Annenberg Educational Genji website

A magisterial contribution to the field.

• List of CharactersIntroduction: Setting the Stage for Genji MangaPart I - Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji1. Contextualizing The Tale of Genji: The Story, the Period, and the Consumer Producers2. The Tale of Genji through the Ages: Transpositions, Translations, Cultural Capital, and Interpretative CommunitiesPart II - Manga's Many Tales of Many Genjis3. Shojo Girls Manga: Objects of Whose Desire?4. Boys Love Manga: Appropriating, (Child) Porn-ing, and Queering Male-Male Romances?5. Ladies Comics: Subjects of Consumption, Production, and Desire6. Shonen Boys/Seinen Young Men Manga: Male Perspectives Refracted7. Joho Informational Manga: Educational, Gendered, Global/Domestic Revisionist Soft Power8. Conclusion: Will the "Real” Genji Please Step Forward?BibliographyIndex