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Originally released in three parts from 2013 to 2015, Sword Princess Amaltea was written and drawn by the Swedish comics artist Natalia Batista, and has been translated and published in several languages, including English and German. Batista’s manga draws inspiration from both Japanese shôjo or girls’manga and Nordic feminist literature. In this article I show how Batista cleverly makes use of manga’s visual conventions to challenge conventional representations of gender, sexuality, and the gaze. As a manga aimed at least in part at younger readers in school contexts, Sword Princess Amaltea and its accompanying instructional materials raise questions of genre and visual literacy in the language and literature classroom. Calling attention to the transnational circulation of manga and its genres, I analyze Sword Princess Amaltea with its paratexts in order to demonstrate the potential for a queer and feminist comics pedagogy.  \nKeywords: Natalia Batista, Swedish comics, feminist comics, manga, comics pedagogy  \nSammendrag  \nDenne artikkelen tar for seg den svenske feministiske mangaen Sword Princess Amaltea ogdens pedagogiske paratekster. Sword Princess Amaltea, skrevet og tegnet av den svensketegneseriekunstneren Natalia Batista, ble opprinnelig utgitt i tre deler fra 2013 til 2015. Den harblitt oversatt til flere språk, inkludert engelsk og tysk. Som mangategner er Batista inspirert både av den japanske shôjo-tradisjonen (manga for jenter) og av nordisk feministisk litteratur. I artikkelen viserjeg hvordan Batista lykkes med å bruke mangaens visuelle konvensjoner for å utfordre tradisjonelle representasjoner av kjønn, seksualitet og blikket. Sword Princess Amaltea er en manga som delvis retter seg mot yngre lesere som fortsatt er skoleelever (som fortsatt går på skolen) . Både boka og det didaktiske materialet som er utarbeidet til den settersøkelyset på spørsmål om sjanger og visuell kompetanse i språk- og litteraturundervisning. Gjennom min lesning av Sword Princess Amaltea med dens paratekster ønsker jeg å visepotensialet for en tegneseriepedagogikk med queer og feministisk tilsnitt samtidig som jeg ønsker å rette oppmerksomheten mot den transnasjonale utbredelsen av manga og densundersjangere.  \nNøkkelord: Natalia Batista, svenske tegneserieromaner, feministiske tegneserieromaner, manga, tegneseriepedagogikk  \nSwedish Feminist Manga and Critical Comics Pedagogy in Natalia Batista’s Sword Princess Amaltea  \nIn the second chapter of Natalia Batista’s fantasy romance manga Sword Princess Amaltea (2013–2015), the title character Amaltea meets a nomad woman named Samyra Hadi Martuk who conveniently explains the backstory of the storyworld. In the past, men and women lived together as equals, but this balance changed when it was discovered that only women had access to magical powers. A matriarchal society arose in which women’s superiority to men was assumed to be natural, and a war of the matriarchs soon broke out. Ultimately, peace was established, but only through the introduction of strict rules of succession that would maintain the balance between the queendoms. Among these rules is the tradition that a queen’s youngest daughter should set out on a quest to marry a prince and thereby inherit a queendom in her own  \nright. It is at the beginning of such a quest that readers first meet Amaltea in Batista’s manga series.  \nNatalia Batista’s Sword Princess Amaltea is a work of Swedish feminist manga aimed at younger readers and published with an accompanying lärarhandledning [instructor’s guide] . Originally written in Swedish, Amaltea has been published for an international readership with translati","cbCaitZ0v5CvCgAJ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaitZ0v5CvCgAJ","pdf",646806,24,"English","# Sword Princess Amaltea: context and publication\n## Feminist manga inspiration and transnational circulation\n## Pedagogical paratexts and classroom relevance","[{\"question\":\"What is the central focus of the article?\",\"answer\":\"The article focuses on Sword Princess Amaltea and how its pedagogical paratexts support critical feminist and queer comics pedagogy.\"},{\"question\":\"How does Sword Princess Amaltea challenge traditional ideas?\",\"answer\":\"It uses manga’s visual conventions to question conventional portrayals of gender, sexuality, and the gaze.\"},{\"question\":\"Why is the manga relevant in school or classroom contexts?\",\"answer\":\"Because the manga and its accompanying instructional materials address genre and visual literacy, making them suitable for language and literature teaching.\"}]","Swedish Feminist Manga and Critical Comics Pedagogy in Natalia Batista’s Sword Princess Amaltea | PDF"]