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Panel”  \nCamila Gutierrez   \nProceedings of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies 18 (2017): 38–46.  \nPAJLS 18:  \nword/image/japan.  \nEd. Charlotte Eubanks, with Kyle Posey.  \nMANGA VISUALS IN LATIN AMERICA: GENDER DIVERSITY BEYOND THE PANEL  \nCamila Gutierrez  \nPennsylvania State University  \nIn 2016, consumers of Japanese comics, or manga do not necessarily speak Japanese, live in Japan, or have a particular interest in Japanese literature. Nevertheless, these consumers continue to find ways to access their favorite manga stories from anywhere in the world. Outside of Japan, the widespread circulation of anime between the 1980s and the early 2000s created a global network of consumers of manga who, although not always familiar with Japanese culture in general, are familiar with aspects specific to manga culture. Their knowledge of manga makes them able to discriminate between major manga genres such as shonen and shojo, and their subgenres (be they seinen, josei, and shonen ai) . However, while the global interest in manga is significant, national markets across the globe have not always been keen on satisfying consumers’ demands. In the case of Latin America, consumerism of unofficial translations of manga is fairly common in adult and teen age segments, yet the availability of physical copies of almost any manga is extremely limited. The reasons for Latin American market’s unresponsiveness to the demand for manga are not always clear. In most countries, a mix of political and religious conservatism, the U.S-imported view of comics as juvenile literature, and the prejudice against Japanese popular culture as primarily pornographic, are the most prominent reasons that conflate to obstruct the official circulation of printed manga.  \nThe regional production of Latin American comics (also known as historietas) has taken the blow of conservatism almost equally if not more harshly than manga. The once thriving historietas of Mexico, Argentina, and Chile have been underproduced, underfunded and over-taxed for decades, to the point of near disappearance. As readers’ demand continues, the scarcity of locally made historietas has been compensated by unofficial web translations of manga for the last 15 years. Consequently, the latest generation of Latin American artists has found inspiration in  \nthe ornamented, decompressed, and surreal layouts of the manga page, which shows in multiple works that may or may not identify as “Latin American manga”. Some artists, in fact, continue to identify more with French and U.S. American schools of comics, while only partially acknowledging the influence that manga has on their work. Nevertheless, a growing number of Latin American comics artists have moved towards a full appropriation of manga aesthetics and have begun to produce stories that emulate manga conventions to perfection, while carefully adapting them to the representational needs of their immediate local contexts.  \nAmong these locally made works, shonen ai, or “homosexual romantic or pornographic manga consumed by heterosexual adult women”, has gained special notoriety across and along the Latin American continent. The phenomenon of Latin American shonen ai is not, however, a mere replication of the tropes of Japanese shonen ai. The use of manga aesthetics has helped to circulate images and stories that challenge conservative national representations of homosexuality. In Latin American shonen ai, the use of manga visuals can be seen as a contestation of heteronormative narrative that is especially facilitated by manga’s condition as “foreign”. In its foreignness, shonen ai manga imports methods of representation that allow artists to deal with issues rendered invisible by local heteronormative visuality 1 .  \n1 In Chilean media, for example, it is an editorial pattern to give primacy to the continuity of heterosexist/patriarchal narratives over all issues of alter","cbCaivSsnKD7DQTr","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivSsnKD7DQTr","pdf",441022,"English","# Introduction\n## Global manga consumption\n## Latin American market and official access\n# Local historietas and manga aesthetics\n## Appropriation of manga layouts\n## Hybrid comic identities\n# Shonen ai and heteronormativity contestation\n## Challenging conservative representations\n## Manga’s foreign condition and queer visibility","[{\"question\":\"Why does Latin America have limited official access to printed manga?\",\"answer\":\"The text links unresponsiveness to political and religious conservatism, a U.S.-imported view of comics as juvenile, and prejudice against Japanese popular culture as pornographic.\"},{\"question\":\"How have Latin American artists adapted manga aesthetics in their own comics?\",\"answer\":\"They draw on ornamented, decompressed, and surreal manga layouts, producing stories that emulate manga conventions while adapting to local representational needs.\"},{\"question\":\"What role do manga visuals play in Latin American shonen ai?\",\"answer\":\"The study explains that using manga aesthetics helps circulate images and stories that challenge conservative national representations of homosexuality by contesting heteronormative narrative.\"}]","MANGA VISUALS IN LATIN AMERICA - GENDER DIVERSITY BEYOND THE PANEL | PDF",25]