Passionate friendship
Subtitle: the aesthetics of girls' culture in Japan
By: Deborah Shamoon
Publisher: University of Hawaiʻi Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9780824835422; 9780824836382
Subjects: Teenage girls in popular culture; Books and reading; History; Teenage girls; History and criticism; Comic books, strips
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The emergence of the shōjo and the discourse of spiritual love in Meiji literature; title: Prewar girls' culture (shōjo bunka), 1910-1937; title: Narrative and visual aesthetics of prewar girls' magazines; title: The formation of postwar shōjo manga, 1950-1969; title: The revolution in 1970s shōjo manga.