书名：Manga from the Floating World: Comicbook Culture and the Kibyōshi of Edo Japan, Second Edition, With a New Preface / 浮世漫画：江户日本的漫画文化与黄表纸（第二版，新增前言）
定价：368.0
ISBN：9780674241763
作者：Adam L. Kern
版次：1
出版时间：2019-06

内容提要：
书名：Manga from the Floating World: Comicbook Culture and the Kibyōshi of Edo Japan / 浮世漫画：江户日本的漫画文化与黄表纸
作者：Adam L. Kern (亚当·L·克恩)
出版社：Harvard University Asia Center (由哈佛大学出版社发行)，2019年
装帧：平装/精装，606页
语种：英文
尺寸：约 21.6*27.9 cm（8 1/2 x 11 英寸）

ISBN：978-0-6742-4176-3

简介
本书是首部用英语完整研究黄表纸的学术著作。黄表纸是18世纪末日本江户时期广为流传的一种木刻版画漫画书，成为当时极具影响力的政治讽刺形式。作者Adam L. Kern结合对该体裁产生和消费的社会经济与历史背景的分析，以及三位主要作者-艺术家山东京传（1761–1816）作品的注释翻译，对江户中期充满活力的流行文化进行了深入细读。Kern认为，黄表纸成为了一种颇具影响力的政治讽刺形式，似乎即将把江户独有的城市平民文化转变为更宏大的东西，甚至可能成为一种民族文化，直到幕府政府干预介入。该书基于使用原始江户版本一手资料的广泛研究，配有大量来自日本档案收藏的珍稀版画。它不仅介绍了黄表纸本身，还介绍了该体裁的读者与评论家、叙事惯例、视觉模式、版式格式，及其与现代日本漫画和江户通俗文学、机智幽默的关系。

Manga from the Floating World is the first full-length study in English of the kibyōshi, a genre of woodblock-printed comic book widely read in late-eighteenth-century Japan. By combining analysis of the socioeconomic and historical milieus in which the genre was produced and consumed with three annotated translations of works by major author-artist Santō Kyōden (1761–1816), Adam Kern offers a sustained close reading of the vibrant popular imagination of the mid-Edo period. The kibyōshi, Kern argues, became an influential form of political satire that seemed poised to transform the uniquely Edoesque brand of urban commoner culture into something more, perhaps even a national culture, until the shogunal government intervened. Based on extensive research using primary sources in their original Edo editions, the volume is copiously illustrated with rare prints from Japanese archival collections. It serves as an introduction not only to the kibyōshi but also to the genre’s readers and critics, narratological conventions, modes of visuality, format, and relationship to the modern Japanese manga and to the popular literature and wit of Edo. Filled with graphic puns and caricatures, these entertaining works will appeal to the general reader as well as to the more experienced student of Japanese cultural history—and anyone interested in the global history of comics, graphic novels, and manga.