JAPANESE LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE 81 - Topics in Japanese Literature and Culture

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Dartmouth College

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09W, 09F: 10A This seminar is designed to examine closely literary and cultural texts employing theoretical and historical sources. Topics vary according to instructor, but might range from studies of single authors to broader comparative themes, where students will be urged to incorporate readings in the original language. In 09W, The Art of War: Stories, Paintings, Films, and Propaganda From Japan's Modern Wars. In this course we will examine the relationship between a wide variety of cultural artifacts and modern Japan's experience of war, particularly WW II. Topics addressed within this context include: government censorship, literary subversion, popular culture versus high culture, visual versus written media, postwar cultural memory, the ideology of suicide squads, and the mentality of victimhood. No Japanese language is required for the course, but students with sufficient ability will be expected to make use of original sources . Dist: LIT; WCult: NW . Dorsey.In 09F, Cultures of Defeat: Postwar Japanese Film and Fiction. An examination of the production and reception of key literary and film texts in Japan between the surrender in 1945 and the return of Okinawa in 1970. Topics addressed include: nostalgia and the uses of the past in the language of Japanese film and fiction; censorship and cultural amnesia;violence as an expression of cultural authenticity; the reconstruction of national identity; youth culture and changing perceptions of gender; the impact of Western aesthetic and political movements on Japanese understandings of postwar culture. Dist: LIT; WCult: NW. Washburn.

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3.00

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www.dartmouth.edu

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(603) 646-1110

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New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Quarter

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