JPNS 025. Contemporary Japanese Literature and Film.

Cross-listed as LITR 025J
This course will explore the confluence of literary and cinematic imagination with contemporary Japanese social and historical currents through an examination of works by Japanese writers and filmmakers active today–primarily works created in the 21st Century. Themes considered will include youth culture and urban life; precarity and social critique through the lenses of class, ethnicity, and gender; and disaster and dystopia. Writers encountered will include Murakami Haruki, Kirino Natsuo, Kawakami Mieko, Murata Sayaka, Ogawa Yôko, and Tawada Yôko; filmmakers will include Koreeda Hirokazu, Anno Hideaki, Sono Sion, and Shinkai Makoto. No prerequisites; the class will be conducted in English and all works will be available in English translation or with English subtitles.
HU.
1 credit.
Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Japanese
Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/japanese

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