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Re: {GNIE-L}
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James Bucky Carter
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Mar 19, 2005 16:22 PST
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Thanks, all! Feel free to send it to your educator friends
as well as consider sending in something yourself! :)
Best,
James
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 16:36:27 -0500
Katharine Kan <teen-@hotmail.com> wrote:
| | James,
Your posting did come through, I received it as well.
Kat Kan
teen-@hotmail.com
| | From: James Bucky Carter
<jbc-@cgatepro-3.mail.virginia.edu>
Reply-To: gni-@topica.com
To: gni-@topica.com
Subject: Re: {GNIE-L}
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 16:00:41 -0500
I recently sent out a call for papers to this listserve
but got a message saying it was sort of "in holding." Did
anyone get my message about the Graphic Novels as a
Complement to the Classics collection? If it seems no one
did, can someone tell me why it might have gotten caught
up in the system?
Best,
James "Bucky" Carter
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 19:04:33 -0500
Katharine Kan <teen-@hotmail.com> wrote:
| | What gets me in the article is that it mentions King
Middle School has "as
many as 400 graphic novels" in the collection, but it
only mentions the titles that would get a rise out of
many parents.
I tell people the following story when I do presentations
about graphic novels and they ask me about manga and
"objectionable" content. I introduced my son to Ranma
1/2 back in 1994 - he was 11 years old. We both thought
the books were absolutely hilarious, and he had no
problems whatsoever with the partial nudity. The next
year, in 7th grade, he took the first volume to school
and showed it to his classmates. They all thought it was
great, and most of them started going to the stores to
find the books for themselves. Then some of them started
getting the anime on VHS and sharing those. The most
rabid Ranma 1/2 fan was a girl. None of the parents ever
made a complaint. And this was in a private school run
by a church. It was in Hawaii, which probably explains
it right there. Most of the kids in my son's class were
Asian American or mixed-race like him. When we moved to
Indiana and I started to get some complaints from parents
at the public library about having Ranma1/2 in YA, I
asked my son, now in high school, about it. He scoffed
that anyone should worry about anything in the books -
"they're totally silly, and anyone who reads them should
see that." His comment on the nudity - "so what, you
don't really see anything."
Kat Kan
teen-@hotmail.com
| | From: Mary-Lou Gelissen <mgeli-@city.windsor.on.ca>
Reply-To: gni-@topica.com
To: "'gni-@topica.com'" <gni-@topica.com>
Subject: RE: {GNIE-L} Portland Press article and
editorial about gns in school
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 20:19:17 -0500
A very interesting article Katherine, I find it kind of
unnerving that no
non-nude titles are mentioned. I personally do not buy
titles such as Love
Hina, due to the racy content that offends the teen
girls. If they want to
read more Shojo then I pick up Swan or Fruits Basket.
However even though I
am not the biggest fan of the Manga genre, I feel the
body types are far
more realistic then anything from an X-men comic (which I
read). As for
stuff like Inu-yasha and Ranman 1/2 the brief nudity is
non-relevant to most
of the kids that I have spoken to in my Comic Club and to
them it isn't
anything more then what they haven't seen in a Britney
Spears video.
The article was very insightful pointing out the cultural
differences that
(even we Canadians) find with America's more Puritanical
culture. I don't
dispute the problems with 'hentaiesque' novels and my
budget is so small I
do not purchase them. However, I encourage the outrage of
that young woman
and those grade six girls. If they feel objectified they
should voice their
opinions and feel comfortable doing so. My question to
them would be do you
get this angry watching a video or reading Seventeen
magazine? What is
healthy is the discussion taking place. However does this
warrant
Censorship. Do you understand what Censoring materials
means? I know in my
teen groups many of the females prefer Manga because of
the physical
depictions of characters (as being more androgynous) and
more realistic and
not as exaggerated.
I do believe it takes a lot more concentration to
understand a story that is
drawn and limits language. It encourages creative thought
and analysis just
as examining a painting in a museum would. Also a number
of my "reluctant
readers" are now reading other materials, aside from
Manga. They like books
on art, history, martial arts, travel as well as other
non-fiction interests
and good for them! The members of my Comic Club are the
biggest readers I
know.
Any response from the educators out there?
Mary-Lou Gelissen
Teen Services Librarian
Windsor Public library
Windsor, Ontario
-----Original Message-----
From: Katharine Kan [mailto:teen-@hotmail.com]
Sent: March 17, 2005 6:27 PM
To: gni-@topica.com
Subject: {GNIE-L} Portland Press article and editorial
about gns in school
Here's the original article:
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/state/050314comics.shtml
And the follow-up editorial (which is great):
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/viewpoints/editorials/050315novel.shtml
Kat Kan
teen-@hotmail.com
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