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Description of  T jisha Manga: Japan s Graphic Memoirs of Brain and Mental Health

This book defines tjisha manga as Japans autobiographical comics in which the author recounts the experience of a mental or neurological condition in a unique medium of text and image. Yoshiko Okuyama argues that tjisha manga illuminate otherwise faceless individuals and humanize their invisible tribulations because the first-person narrative makes their lived experience more authentic and relatable to the reader. Part I introduces the evolution of the term Read more