Abstract
Monstrous is an autobiographical comic created by Sarah Myer, narrating her experiences as a South Korean descendant adopted by a German family who was living in America. The struggle of value differences between oneself, family, and school environment is a dilemma faced by transnational individuals. While struggling to identify her identity, Sarah was referencing Japanese pop culture to express herself and connect with her peer groups. This research utilizes a semiotic analysis method combined with literature review analysis. The semiotic theory used is Roland Barthes' theory, which seeks meaning from the collection of signs within the work. To elucidate the meanings found in semiotic analysis, literature review through social identity theories is required for the observed phenomena to be understood. Through this research, in pop culture, especially through fictional characters, there is cultural hegemony of other countries that can influence the formation of transnational individual identities. This is because individuals perceive the application of fictional character values as signs to form perceptions and judge others. The relationship between state hegemony can pose a challenge for transnational individuals in forming identities through popular culture. The challenge is in the form of isolation which occurred because moral and norm values attached in pop culture is different than standard moral and norm values in society and it clashed. Meanwhile, the history and relation between countries also have a significant role in the identity construction process of a society that form the state hegemony.
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Johanes Park, Bina Nusantara University, Indonesia
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Conference: KAMC2024
Stream: Difference/Identity/Ethnicity
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Park J. (2024) Japanese Pop Culture’s Influence on the Process of Transnational Children’s Identity Identification in “Monstrous” Graphic Novel ISSN: 2436-0503 – The Kyoto Conference on Arts, Media & Culture 2024: Official Conference Proceedings (pp. 63-74) https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2436-0503.2024.7
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2436-0503.2024.7
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