The Properly Feminine Nationalist Body in the Propaganda Kamishibai of Suzuki Noriko

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Sharalyn Orbaugh is Professor of modern Japanese literature and popular culture in the Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. In addition to her ongoing study of kamishibai and World War II propaganda, she has an essay on the intersection of critical feminism and cyborg anime, “Who Does the Feeling When There’s No Body There? Cyborgs and Companion Species in Oshii Mamoru’s Films,” in Sarah Wells and Jennifer Feeley, eds., Simultaneous Worlds: Global SF Cinema (University of Minnesota Press, 2014). The Properly Feminine Nationalist Body in the Propaganda Kamishibai of Suzuki Noriko