JPNT 177 PO - Japanese/Japanese American Women Writers

CrsNo JPNT177 PO


When Offered: Spring 2012, alternate years.

Instructor(s): L. Miyake

Japanese and Japanese American Women Writers: How, Where and What. An examination of writings by classical/modern Japanese/Japanese American women writers within local/global settings focusing on what they wrote, why they wrote, and where they wrote. The course will explore how local/global gender and race politics inform their writings–and their reception–and the ways these formulations (which have crossed back and forth across the Pacific from the earliest Japanese immigration to the U.S. through international exchanges to this day) continue to fashion the writings of these women writers. Letter grade only.

(Japanese in Translation)