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How Manga Took Over American Bookshelves

Season 2 Episode 18 | 14m 17s

Manga, by its most simplistic definition, are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan, which became extremely popular in the United States starting in the 80s and 90s. We’ve already touched on Western Graphic Novels and Comics, but you know we couldn’t just leave it at that. So today we’re discussing manga as its own rich literature, reflecting the complicated political history of Japan.

Aired: 05/11/21
Made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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To understand Beloved, we must first look at the author: Nobel Prize Winner Toni Morrison.
We explore the roots, tenets of the genre, and its rise in Latin American Literature.
His legacy is more complicated than school books may have lead us to believe.
We explore the life and work of Kurt Vonnegut.
The women in her work reveal to us her growth, her politics and ambition.
Sometimes a story is just so dang good, it bears repeating.
There's more to H.G. Wells than we know or think.
It is considered one of the great American novels and one of the most frequently banned.
We take a look at this Epic Poem and follow its long, winding journey.
it is one of the trademark texts of the American school system by Harper Lee.
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To understand Beloved, we must first look at the author: Nobel Prize Winner Toni Morrison.
We explore the roots, tenets of the genre, and its rise in Latin American Literature.
His legacy is more complicated than school books may have lead us to believe.
We explore the life and work of Kurt Vonnegut.
The women in her work reveal to us her growth, her politics and ambition.
Sometimes a story is just so dang good, it bears repeating.
There's more to H.G. Wells than we know or think.
It is considered one of the great American novels and one of the most frequently banned.
We take a look at this Epic Poem and follow its long, winding journey.
it is one of the trademark texts of the American school system by Harper Lee.