Susan J. Napier

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Susan Napier (2008)

Susan Jolliffe Napier (* 1955 ) is an American Japanologist and currently teaches at Tufts University . Previously, she was Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture at the University of Texas at Austin and a visiting professor at the Institute for East Asian Languages ​​and Cultures at Harvard University and Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Pennsylvania . Her main research interests are Japanese fantastic literature, anime and manga .

Life

Napier is the daughter of historian Reginald Phelps and Julia Sears Phelps and grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts . At Harvard University , which was also studied her parents, she completed her studies and was eventually graduated .

In 1991 Napier's book Escape from the Wasteland: Romanticism and Realism in the Fiction of Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo was published , followed in 1996 by The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature: The Subversion of Modernity . From 1989 she was interested in anime and manga, initially Akira in particular , which had piqued her interest. Her third book, Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation , was published in 2001 , her first on anime. It was reprinted three times before a revised and updated version was released as the anime From Akira To Howl's Moving Castle in 2005 . In 2007, From Impressionism To Anime: Japan As Fantasy And Fan Cult In The Western Imagination followed , which deals more with the anime fan scene.

Works

  • The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature. The Subversion of Modernity . Routledge, London 1996
  • Vampires, Psychic Girls, Flying Women and Sailor Scouts . In Dolores P Martinez (Ed.): The Worlds of Japanese Popular Culture. Gender, Shifting Boundaries and Global Culture . Cambridge University Press, 1998.
  • Confronting Master Narratives. History As Vision in Miyazaki Hayao's Cinema of De-assurance . In: Positions East Asia Cultures Critique , Vol. 9 2001.
  • Anime from Akira to Howl's Moving Castle. Experiencing Japanese Animation . Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
  • Meet Me on the Other Side. Strategies of Otherness in Modern Japanese literature . Routledge, London 2006.
  • "Excuse Me, Who Are You?" Performance, the Gaze, and the Female in the Works of Kon Satochi . In Steven T. Brown (Ed.): Cinema Anime. Critical Engagements with Japanese Animation . Palgrave Macmillen, 2006.
  • From Impressionism to Anime. Japan as Fantasy and Fan Cult in the Mind of the West . Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
  • When the machine stops. Fantasy, Reality, and Terminal Identity in Neon Genesis Evangelion and Serial Experiments: Lain . In: Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams. Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime . University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
  • Miyazakiworld. A Life in Art . Yale University Press, 2018.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke: Experiencing Japanese Animation . Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Spine.
  2. ↑ a b Anime Lecture at MIT . Anime News Network . May 1, 2001. Retrieved November 27, 2009.
  3. ^ Curriculum vitae on the homepage of Susan J. Napier
  4. ↑ Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke: Experiencing Japanese Animation . Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Acknowledgments .
  5. ↑ Susan Napier presents new book on American anime fans. Anime News Network , March 30, 2007; accessed October 27, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Napier, Susan J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Napier, Susan Jolliffe (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Japanologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Cambridge, Massachusetts