Adam Kern Guest Lecture
The Geisha's Forbidden Comicbook: Gender, Advertising and the Visual-Verbal Imagination in Early Modern Japan
Event Details
Date
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Time
6:30 p.m.
Location
Description
Focusing on the comicbook (kibyôshi) experience of Edo (Tokyo), Kern, Harvard University. will address the advent of early modern Japanese advertising, touching on the gendered discourse of kibyôshi readership with an interrogation of the notion of literacy as based strictly on verbal texts.
Cost
Free