Dramaturgy of Ethnicity and Diversity in Japanese and Malaysian Manga

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Authors

Rachel Suet Kay Chan¹

1. Institute of Ethnic Studies (KITA), UKM

Conference / event

ScienceOpen Posters, March 2023 (Virtual)

Poster summary

Recently, there has been an increase in the consumption and production of Japanese comics or manga in Malaysia, to the extent that Malaysians are producing their own homegrown manga titles. Manga, which originates from Japan, has often been the topic of debate, regarding its depiction of characters, especially in terms of ethnicity. My research question is, how does Malaysian homegrown manga differ from the standard Japanese manga? For example, are there visual and thematic differences? Does it have potential for social critique and education? I comparatively analyse the dramaturgical approach in selected Japanese manga and selected Malaysian manga.

Keywords

Japanese manga, Malaysian manga, Dramaturgy

Research areas

Humanities and Social Sciences

References

1. 10.14293/P2199-8442.1.SOP-.PKI81P.v1

Funding

1. Sumitomo Foundation (No. 23804004)

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Competing interests

No competing interests were disclosed.

Data availability statement

Data sharing not applicable to this poster as no datasets were generated or analyzed during the current study.

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Copyright © 2024 Chan. This is an open access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.