6/28/2023 0 Comments Yoshihiro tatsumi goodbye![]() Yet as David Blake Willis and Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu have argued in Transcultural Japan the West is preoccupied with conceptual dichotomies and dialectical oppositions and has therefore overlooked the transcultural and transnational elements in Japan that have created a contemporary society with fluid boundaries and innovative cultural formations. What are the implications of Tatsumi’s graphic representation of cross-cultural differences in terms of what Roland Kelts has called ‘transcultural longing’? Gekiga in Japan was a countercultural movement that eventuated in response to the perception of the stereotypical drawing of manga developed by Tezuka Osamu in his mimesis of Walt Disney comics. This paper investigates the intercultural and transcultural implications of Yoshihiro Tatsumi’s (辰巳 ヨシヒロ) gekiga (劇画) movement in Japan. ![]()
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