{"672885":{"#nid":"672885","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Manga, Murder and Mystery: The Boy Detectives of Japan\u2019s Lost Generation","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELittle is known about youth detectives in Japanese detective fiction, despite their popularity. Who are they, and what mysteries do their representations in Japanese popular culture reveal about how we understand youth society?\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMimi Okabe, assistant teaching professor at the University of Buffalo, will\u0026nbsp;begin by addressing how these questions shape her current research, which has culminated in a monograph, \u003Cem\u003EManga Murder and Mystery: The Boy Detectives of Japan\u2019s Lost Generation\u003C\/em\u003E (2023).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBy exploring the construction of the sh\u014dnen (boy) detective in commercially successful manga series of the Heisei Era (1989-2019) \u2014The Kindaichi Case Files (1992-1997), Case Closed (1994- ), Death Note (2003-06) and Moriarty the Patriot (2016)\u2014 Okabe shows how detective manga materialized in a nation undergoing a state of crisis and how the boy detective emerged as a site of national trauma to address perceived youth problems, but in thematically different ways. As the first book-length study of boy detectives in Japanese manga,\u003Cem\u003E Manga, Murder and Mystery\u003C\/em\u003E foregrounds themes and critical discourses of identity, nation, and youth culture, advancing new insights regarding the trope of the boy detective in manga, re-centring discourses of the nation towards youth itself in speaking their own experiences about school, home, and social expectations.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe talk will end with a discussion on the trajectory of youth detectives beyond the sh\u014dnen genre and manga alone, exploring how youth detectives navigate complex societal issues and moral dilemmas in other Japanese media.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFeaturing Mimi Okabe, assistant teaching professor at the University of Buffalo.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Featuring Mimi Okabe, assistant teaching professor at the University of Buffalo, New York."}],"uid":"36009","created_gmt":"2024-02-12 18:00:26","changed_gmt":"2024-02-12 18:00:26","author":"cwhittle9","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2024-02-15T11:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2024-02-15T12:15:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2024-02-15T12:15:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2024-02-15 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2024-02-15 17:15:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2024-02-15 17:15:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"location":"Swann 320","extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1284","name":"School of Modern Languages"},{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"190195","name":"japanese at georgia tech"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKyoko Masuda\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nkm210@gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}