Instructions
Answer this question: How can the study of modern Japanese literature help us address one or more of the following concepts: modernity, nationalism, imperialism, colonialism, globalization?
Studying modern Japanese literature can help one to identify concepts such as.. (choose one or more of the above)
include a reflection
How your work addressed the question
What you hope your audience learned from your work
What you learned from your work
Mention all authors of the work you choose (I will send the reading in a file and ill choose a short one)
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In this class we had readings on Japanese literature. I will choose one for you to reference in this paper.
Examples must be taken from this reading to answer the question and the readings meaning, significance etc should be analyzed in a bigger picture.
The first file is the reading I chose (blind Chinese soldiers)
The second is a file you can reference if you’d like.
Here are other sources you can find information: (This is optional and for your convenience)
Karatani Kojin. The Origins of Modern Japanese Literature. Duke University Press, 1994.
Tyler, William J. Modanizumu. University of Hawaii Press, 2008. (JSTOR)
Nakamura, Miri. Monstrous Bodies. Harvard University Press, 2015. (JSTOR)
Treat, John Whittier. The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature. University of Chicago Press, 2018.
Silverberg, Miriam. Erotic Grotesque Nonsense. University of California Press, 2006.
Copeland, Rebecca. Woman Critiqued: Translated Essays on Japanese Womens Writing. University of Hawaii Press, 2006. (JSTOR)
Maeda, Ai. Texts and the City: Essays on Japanese Modernity. Duke University Press, 2004.
Harootunian, Harry. Overcome by Modernity: History, Culture, and Community in Interwar Japan. Princeton University Press, 2000.
Sakai, Naoki. Translation and Subjectivity: On Japan and Cultural Nationalism. University of Minnesota Press, 1997.
Calichman, Richard. Beyond Nation: Time, Writing, and Community in the Work of Abe Kb. Stanford University Press, 2016.
Abe, Kb. The Frontier Within: Essays by Abe Kobo, translated by Richard Calichman. Columbia University Press, 2013.
Bolton, Christopher. Sublime Voices: Sublime Science: The Fictional Science and Scientific Fiction of Abe Kobo. Harvard University Press, 2011.
Sakaki, Atsuko. Obsessions with the Sino-Japanese Polarity in Japanese Literature. University of Hawaii Press, 2005.
Aoyama Tomoko. Reading Food in Modern Japanese Literature. University of Hawaii Press, 2008.
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