Talk to My Back
$63.60
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
12 July 2022
Summary
A celebrated masterwork shimmering with vulnerability from one of alt-manga’s most important female artists.
‘Now that we’ve woken from the dream, what are we going to do?’ Chiharu thinks to herself, rubbing her husband’s head affectionately. Set in an apartment complex on the outskirts of Tokyo, Yamada Murasaki’s Talk To My Back (1981-84) explores the fraying of Japan’s suburban middle-class dreams through a woman’s relationship with her two daughters as they mature and asse…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781770465633 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1770465634 |
| Author: | Yamada Murasaki, Ryan Holmberg |
| Publisher: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Imprint: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 12 July 2022 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 213mm |
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Critics Review
“This early feminist manga follows a suburban Tokyo woman as she navigates her relationship with an emotionally distant husband, her two maturing daughters and the fear of having been ‘thrown away inside that empty vessel called the household.” —The New York Times
Yamada Murasaki
Yamada Murasaki (1948–2009) debuted as a cartoonist in 1969. Informed by her upbringing—she was raised mainly by her grandmother—and a background in design and poetry, Yamada’s early work was unique in form and content, offering realistic portraits of young women negotiating complicated family situations and the passage to adulthood. In the late ’70s, after having a family of her own, her work shifted to young mothers negotiating children, husbands, and the balance between social responsibilities as a housewife and self-respect as a woman. Yamada published manga in practically every issue of Garo from 1978 to 1986, and is considered the first cartoonist to use the artistic freedoms of alternative manga to explore motherhood and domesticity with an unromantic eye.
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