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GSFS0214A-S20

Modern Japanese Women Writers
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Modern and Contemporary Japanese Women Writers
A thousand years ago, women writers dominated the Japanese literary world. Then, for centuries, their skill was discounted, their works overlooked, and their voices silenced. Starting with the nineteenth century, however, Japanese women writers started to reclaim their grandmothers’ heritage. They took the male-dominated literary world by assault, pushing boundaries, drawing on their literary legacy and reinventing it, resisting the label of “women’s literature” so often pejoratively attached to their works. In this course we will explore these figures of resistance and their multilayered works in the context of the changing socio-political conditions that shaped women’s positions in Japanese society.3 hrs. lect.
Course Reference Number (CRN):
22658
Subject Code:
GSFS
Course Number:
0214
Section Identifier:
A

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Spring 2020

GSFS0214A-S20 Lecture (Milutin)