North Korean Graphic Novels: Seduction of the Innocent?

ISBN-13: 9780367587932 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 306 str.

Martin Petersen

Opis

This book provides an analysis of North Korean graphic novels, discussing the ideals they promote and the tensions within those ideals, and examining the reception of graphic novels in North and South Korea and beyond.

Spis treści

List of figures

List of tables

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Seduction of the innocent? Kurimchaek as entertainment, education, harmful media, political propaganda and beyond

Part One: History, media and regime

Chapter One: A short history of North Korea and kurimchaek

Chapter Two: Post-1998 North Korean graphic novels

Chapter Three: Father, Mother and Son: One family, one nation, one medium

Part Two: Seduction of the reader

Chapter Four: A society in crisis? From The Arduous March to a New Deal

Chapter Five: The downfall of a model citizen? Family background as plot tension and policy discord

Chapter Six: Sleepless in the DPRK: Graphic negotiations of ‘family’ in The True Identity of ‘Pear Blossom’

Chapter Seven: Patriots behind enemy lines: Hyperreality and excess in graphic novels about war

Part Three: Reading for the reader

Chapter Eight: Reading for the North Korean reader I: Media framing of comics consumption in contemporary DPRK

Chapter Nine: Reading for the North Korean reader II: Comics in children’s literature and refugee reminiscences

Final panel: Seduction of the innocent?

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Martin Petersen is a Senior Researcher at the National Museum of Denmark