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Una Mujer de Espaldas / Talk to My Back - by Yamada Murasaki (Paperback)

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  • Un manga de culto imprescindible de Yamada Murasaki, una autora aún inédita en España, feminista y máxima exponente del manga alternativo de finales de siglo.
  • About the Author: Yamada Murasaki (1948-2009) fue mangaka, poeta y ensayista.
  • 384 Pages
  • Comics + Graphic Novels, Contemporary Women

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Un manga de culto imprescindible de Yamada Murasaki, una autora aún inédita en España, feminista y máxima exponente del manga alternativo de finales de siglo.

Ambientada en un complejo de apartamentos de las afueras de Tokio, Una mujer de espaldas explora el desmoronamiento de los ideales de la clase media suburbana japonesa a través de la relación de una madre con sus dos hijas a medida que estas maduran y afirman su independencia, y con su esposo ausente, que a veces confunde a su mujer con una empleada doméstica. A través de su dibujo sencillo y expresivo, la autora captura cada cambio de humor y cada contradicción interna de Chiharu; tanto su culpa como su anhelo. Murasaki fue de las primeras creadoras que huyó del romanticismo idealizado del shôjo y utilizó la libertad expresiva del manga para abordar la domesticidad y la feminidad de una manera realista, crítica y sostenida.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

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, Murasaki Yamada'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 assert their independence, and with her husband, who works late and sees his wife as little more than a domestic servant.

While engaging frankly with the compromises of marriage and motherhood, Yamada remains generous with the characters who fetter her protagonist. When her husband has an affair, Chiharu feels that she, too, has broken the marital contract by straying from the template of the happy housewife. Yamada saves her harshest criticisms for society at large, particularly its false promises of eternal satisfaction within the nuclear family―as fears of having been "thrown away inside that empty vessel called the household" gnaw at Chiharu's soul.

Yamada was the first cartoonist in Japan to use the expressive freedoms of alt-manga to address domesticity and womanhood in a realistic, critical, and sustained way. A watershed work of literary manga, Talk to My Back was serialized in the influential magazine Garo in the early 1980s, and is translated by Eisner-nominated Ryan Holmberg.



About the Author



Yamada Murasaki (1948-2009) fue mangaka, poeta y ensayista. En 1969 debutó como autora con sus publicaciones en la influyente revista Garo. Su vida como madre soltera y como mujer independiente marcó toda su obra, en la que refleja sus experiencias y preocupaciones. Publicó en casi todos los números de Garo desde 1978 hasta 1986, y es considerada la primera dibujante de carácter explícitamente feminista, que trataba de denunciar las desigualdades y dificultades de la vida de las mujeres en una sociedad patriarcal y cerrada como la japonesa. Entre sus publicaciones de poesía y ensayo se encuentran Una vez contemplé el firmamento estrellado (1985), El gato que observa sobre un árbol (1990) y Tokyo Nostalgia (1991). Como mangaka, publicó Showaru-Neko (1980), Blue Sky (1992-1993), Ai no Katachi (2004) y Shinkirari (1981-1984), su obra más reconocida a nivel internacional.
Dimensions (Overall): 9.25 Inches (H) x 6.74 Inches (W) x 1.25 Inches (D)
Weight: 2.09 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 384
Genre: Comics + Graphic Novels
Sub-Genre: Contemporary Women
Publisher: Salamandra Graphic
Format: Paperback
Author: Yamada Murasaki
Language: Spanish
Street Date: April 22, 2025
TCIN: 94281203
UPC: 9788419409409
Item Number (DPCI): 247-30-2419
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship dimensions: 1.3 inches length x 6.6 inches width x 9.2 inches height
Estimated ship weight: 2.05 pounds
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