Week 7
Escaping Modernity
Kawabata Yasunari (1899-1972), Snow Country (Yukiguni, 1937), part I (pp. 3-70)
Edward G. Seidensticker, trans, Snow Country (New York: Knopf, 1956)
Kawabata Yasunari, Snow Country, part II (pp. 70-end)
Week 8
Modern Life and Women’s Writing
Hayashi Fumiko (1903-1951), Diary of a Vagabond (Hōrōki, 1928-30)
Joan E. Ericson, “Diary of a Vagabond,” in Be a Woman: Hayashi Fumiko and Modern
Japanese Women’s Literature (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 1997), 121-214.
Part I: pp. 123-157
Hayashi Fumiko (1903-1951), Diary of a Vagabond (Hōrōki, 1928-30)
Part II: pp. 158-214
Week 9
Modern Class Struggles
Kobayashi Takiji (1903-1933), The Crab Cannery Ship (Kani kōsen, 1929)
Part I: 19-6
Kobayashi Takiji (1903-1933), The Crab Cannery Ship (Kani kōsen, 1929)
Part II: 70-96
Miyamoto Yuriko (1899-1951) – “The Family of Koiwai” (“Koiwai no ikka,” 1934)
Week 10
Wartime Fiction
Hirabayashi Taiko (1905-1972), “Blind Chinese Soldiers” (Mō Chūgoku hei, 1946)
Yukiko Tanaka, ed., To Live and To Write, 41-45
Samuel Hideo Yamashita, trans., “The Diary of an Evacuated Schoolgirl,” in Leaves from an Autumn of Emergencies: Selections from the Wartime Diaries of Ordinary Japanese (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2005), 267-307.
Ishikawa Tatsuzō (1905-1985), Soldiers Alive (Ikite iru heitai, 1938), excerpts.
Week 11
The Self Undone: Atomic Bomb Literature
Ibuse Masuji (1898-1993), “The Crazy Iris” (1951)story of the Meiji period
Ōe Kenzaburo, ed., “The Crazy Iris,” in The Crazy Iris and Other Stories of the Atomic Aftermath (New York: Grove Press, 1985), 17-36.
Hara Tamiki (1905-1951), “The Land of Heart’s Desire” (1951)
Ōe Kenzaburo, ed., “The Land of Heart’s Desire,” in The Crazy Iris and Other Stories of the Atomic Aftermath (New York: Grove Press, 1985), 55-62.
Ōta Yoko (1906-1963) – “Residues of Squalor”
Hayashi Kyōko (1930-2017) – “Masks of Whatchamacallit” (“Nanja monja no men,” 2005)
Week 12
Mourning Modernity
Imamura Shōhei, dir., Black Rain (Kuroi Ame, 1989), 123 min.
Imamura Shōhei, Black Rain (Cont.)
