Graduation Year
2018
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Religious Studies
Reader 1
Oona Eisenstadt
Reader 2
Gary Gilbert
Reader 3
Andrew Jacobs
Rights Information
© 2018 Anyi Wong-Lifton
Abstract
Manga masterpiece Message to Adolf’s fictional narrative intertwines the Holocaust, romance, espionage, and friendship in its international World War II-focused narrative. Using theory on nationalism and Japanese memories of WWII, this thesis argues the violence the characters initiate and suffer blurs lines between perpetrator, hero, and victim to critique the power of nationalism. Its message concerning the danger of nationalism is as applicable for global audiences now as when it was published in 1985.
Recommended Citation
Wong-Lifton, Anyi, "Multinational Manga Memories: Osamu Tezuka’s Postwar Japanese Critique of Nationalism in Message to Adolf" (2018). Scripps Senior Theses. 1196.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1196
This thesis is restricted to the Claremont Colleges current faculty, students, and staff.
