PERIODS OF EUROPEAN CULTURE 49 - Special Topics:Themes

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Dartmouth College

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09W: 12 09S: 11 10W: 2A In 09W, Godzilla's Revenge: Anime, Manga, J-Pop and Cultural Identities in Modern Japan (Identical to Japanese 61). A vague suspicion that Japan's ultimately disastrous war effort had been fueled by both the culture of the elite meant that popular culture took on a new significance after WW II.This course will explore the evolution of this popular culture through the changing technologies of representation, from the manga (comic books), film, pulp fiction and popular music of the early postwar years through the animation, TV programming, and video games of present times. Topics to be addressed include the dynamics between high- and low-brow genres; the delineation of race, gender, and national identity in popular culture; the nature of culture in post-industrial consumer capitalism. Dist: LIT; WCult: NW. Dorsey.In 09S at 11, National Allegory: Readings in Postcolonial Literature and Culture (Identical to English 63). This course explores current theories of nationalism and postnationalism and how these theories could be productively utilized in making sense of literary texts from the postcolonial world. Authors include Lu Xun from China; Raja Rao from India; Sembene Ousmane from Senegal; Ngugi wa Thiong'o from Kenya; and Chinua Achebe from Nigeria. Cultural theorists whose work will be discussed include Ernest Renan, Benedict Anderson, Homi Bhabha, Partha Chatterjee, Franz Fanon, and Frederic Jameson, among others. Dist: LIT; WCult: NW. Giri. In 10W, Law and/as Literature. Ever since the exclusion of poets from Plato's Republic, literature has often been accused of being dangerous. Law, on the other hand, is considered to work at the behest of the status quo. Although sharing the same medium (the written text), law and literature seem to be worlds apart. This class will probe this relationship, both the representation of the law in literature and how law itself is a kind of literature: law as literature. Dist: LIT or INT; WCult: W. Mladek.

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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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