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Final

 

Week 8
Rebellious Women

T 10/31
A Postwar Vision of Meiji: ENCHI Fumiko's The Waiting Years
Film: MIZOGUCHI Kenji, Naniwa Elegy
Short paper #5 due
<click here to read the story of Queen Vaidehi, the Buddhist parable that Enchi mentions in her text>

Th 11/2
discussion of Naniwa Elegy
Miriam SILVERBERG, "The Modern Girl as Millitant," Recreating Japanese Women
Yoshiko MIYAKE,"Doubling Expectations: Motherhood and Women's Factory Work Under State Management in Japan in the 1930's and 1940's" Recreating Japanese Women

 


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