This paper focuses on essay comics created by those who were affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake, known as “3/11”, and aims to clarify how the comic artists represented their experiences of “3/11”. First, the artists actively described their experiences in the form of essay comics, which played a journalistic role and represented a reality of an affected area and a victim’s individual experience that mass media did not report on. The essay comics have a tendency to depict the disaster victims in a cartoon style. This mode of description makes readers feel a sense of intimacy with them, but at the same time, it also has the possibility of reducing the uniqueness of a victim’s experience. Furthermore, for the authors who experienced “3/11”, the disaster not only destroyed their daily life, but likewise became a comic subject that attracted an great deal of social attention, giving them an opportunity for self-realization as an artist. Considering this finding, this paper insists that essay comics on “3/11” can be regarded as a site where ambivalent elements intertwine, such as cartoon and documentation, individuality and generality, citizen media and culture industry, and transmission to and recognition from others.
한국일본언어문화학회 [Japanese Language & Culture Association of Korea]
설립연도
2001
분야
인문학>일본어와문학
소개
본 학회는 일본어학 및 일본문학은 물론, 일본의 정치, 경제, 문화, 사회 등의 일본학 전반에 걸친 연구 및 일본의 언어, 문화를 매체로 한 한국과의 비교 연구를 대상으로 하고 있다. 본 학회는 회원들에게 연구 발표 및 정보 교환의 기회를 부여하고 나아가 한국에서의 바람직한 일본 연구 자세를 확립하는 것을 주된 목표로 하고 있다.