Sensei's First Academic Publication on Cardcaptor Sakura

Post by **sensei** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 8:34 pm

I heard today that Scarecrow Press has confirmed publication of their collection of scholarly essays, titled The Japanification of Children's Popular Culture: From Godzilla to Miyazaki . This includes Sensei's essay, "Sleeping Beauty Awakens Herself: Folklore and Gender Inversion in Cardcaptor Sakura. That was my first effort at mixing academic folklore research with my interest in anime, and was based on a paper that I gave at the 2001 MLA in New Orleans (yes, in the Convention Center that famously was the scene of some of the most hair-raising scenes in the wake of Hurricane Katrina). It's been quite a while in production -- I submitted it for the collection in 2004 and the project has been in and out of production several times. But now it is out, I understand, good and proper.

For details, see:

http://scarecrowpress.com/Catalog/Singl ... 0810851210

It is pricy, as these academic collections tend to be ($45 paperback) but academic Betarians can bug their libraries to order it and then borrow it when it comes in.

Hopefully, this will be the start of a long and abstrusely argued series of refereed articles and Ph.D. theses on the visual rhetoric and metanarrative strategies of manga and anime. For me, it's a grand Xmas present.

kittens · Post by **kittens** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 8:53 pm

This is very cool

Congrats on your nice publication!

kathpatty · Post by **kathpatty** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 8:57 pm

Wow, how proud your family must be of you....is this the first time you have been published? or just in correlation with anime?

Cloud · Post by **Cloud** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 8:57 pm

Yes I think this is the first time you have been published, but I'm not completely sure.

kathpatty · Post by **kathpatty** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 9:01 pm

Actually my pen name is J. K. Rowling...

Just kidding, Cloud !!.....ha,ha
.If that were the case my cel collection would certainly be enormous

Cloud · Post by **Cloud** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 9:01 pm

I'm not sure if it could.

kathpatty · Post by **kathpatty** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 9:03 pm

(magic wand) Poof.............Your a robot !!

Post by **sensei** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 9:41 pm

kathpatty wrote:is this the first time you have been published? or just in correlation with anime?

It is the first time for anime. But actually I have a bunch of academic articles on various forms of more conventional types of folklore, plus a small shelf of books, ranging from the soporific (an annotated edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's business letters from the US Consulate at Liverpool) to the (I'm told) interesting but absurdly titled Aliens, Ghosts, and Cults Oh, My! I always add at signings: Legends We Live. I have another essay in press for Journal of American Folklore titled "Whispers in an Ice Cream Parlor: Culinary Tourism, Contemporary Legends, and the Urban Interzone." (It's all about how if you ate ice cream ca. 1910 you were at risk of being abducted into white slavery.)

It's a job. I just try to make it interesting when I can.

cutiebunny · Post by **cutiebunny** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 10:10 pm

That's really neat, sensei. It's nice to see that, albeit slowly, that anime is beginning to really enter mainstream America and the academia.

I can only imagine what it might be like to watch anime and receive college credit for it.

Congrats on your publication! I'm guessing you'll be rewarding yourself with a nice CCS item, right?

Belldandy16 · Post by **Belldandy16** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 10:22 pm

wow, now i can say i know a celebrity!

congrats Sensei!!!

ReiTheJelly · Post by **ReiTheJelly** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 10:22 pm

Congratulations! And what a Christmas present that turned out to be.

Keropi · Post by **Keropi** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 10:27 pm

Very cool Sensei!

klet · Post by **klet** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 1:16 am

cutiebunny wrote:I can only imagine what it might be like to watch anime and receive college credit for it.

It's pretty fun. Though, my "pop culture" class only really focused on Miyazaki films. Plus, it was supposed to be about learning the language more than anything, but we did learn a lot about culture at the same time, since our professor was a native Japanese speaker.

Of course, we also read novels (and movie pamphlets!) and watched dramas, so there was stuff besides anime involved.

pixie_princess · Post by **pixie_princess** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 9:33 am

Wow, thats really cool! Congrats on all your hard work Sensei

rallihir · Post by **rallihir** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 12:05 pm

Congratulations on your publication. It's good to see anime with more popular as well as professionally positive press coverage. You deserve a cel or two for posterity.

Anime-Beta TNG

Sensei's First Academic Publication on Cardcaptor Sakura

Sensei's First Academic Publication on Cardcaptor Sakura

How proud

Ha

Poof !

Re: How proud