Murasaki Yamada’s Talk to My Back manga release details
Date: 2022 Jul 12 19:55
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good people from the publisher Draw and Quarterly Have sent us the details about their latest release. yamada murasaki talk to my back Presented as a renowned masterwork shimmering with the vulnerability of one of the alt-manga’s most important female artists. We look forward to reading this because Draw and Quarterly always publish interesting manga titles.
The book has now passed through all the good booksellers. ISBN: 9781770465633
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talk to my back
A celebrated masterwork shimmering with the vulnerability of one of alt-manga’s most important female artists.
“Now that we’ve woken up from the dream, what are we going to do?” While caressing her husband’s head lovingly, Chiharu thinks to herself.
Set in an apartment complex on the outskirts of Tokyo, Murasaki Yamada’s Talk to My Back (1981–84) follows a woman’s relationship with the dreams of the suburban middle class of Japan maturing with her two daughters and asserting her independence. She shows through, and her husband, who works late and sees his wife as little more than a domestic servant.
Speaking frankly with the compromises of marriage and motherhood, Yamada remains generous with the characters that bind her protagonist. When her husband has an affair, Chiharu realizes that she too has broken the marital contract by deviating from the blueprint of a happy housewife. Yamada defends his harsh criticisms for society at large, especially the false promises of eternal gratification within the nuclear family – as the fear of being “thrown inside that empty pot of household name” on Chiharu’s soul. .
Yamada was the first cartoonist in Japan to use the expressive freedom of alt-manga to address domesticity and femininity in a realistic, critical, and sustained manner. A watershed work of literary manga, Talk to My Back was serialized in the influential magazine Garo in the early 1980s, and translated by the Eisner-nominated Ryan Holmberg.
As Eisner-nominated translator Ryan Holmberg points out in his accompanying essay, the comics that make up Talk to My Back were serialized in the influential magazine Garo from 1981–1984. When some women were creating the alternative manga Writ Large, Yamada dared to detail the inner lives of women in her comics, highlighting the loneliness and trappings of middle-class Japanese wives.
“These subtle tales of self-worth and domestic desperation [are] A revelation,” writes Rachel Cook for The Guardian. In Talk to My Back, a young woman takes care of her three children, a thankless husband, and the odd pet. Treated like a domestic servant, the protagonist moments I find solace in when everyone has gone to bed, or in the quiet creation of cloth dolls. Shimmering with vulnerability, Yamada touches little in her paintings, dreadfully thin to convey feelings of emptiness and longing Rendered lines and partial facial features.
In line with Kuniko Tsurita’s critically acclaimed The Sky Is Blue with a Single Cloud, this version brings to light another unsung female champion of the alt-manga scene, showing that we’re more likely to meet female cartoonists in this pioneering era of artistic experimentation. How much can you learn?
ISBN: 9781770465633
Binding: Paperback
Page: 384
Trim Size: 6.1 x 8.4
Colour: Black and white throughout the picture
Source: Draw and Quarterly