EALC 398

Fall 2012

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Credit: 3 hours.

May be repeated to a maximum of 6 hours. Prerequisite: Junior standing.

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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
31760
Lecture-Discussion
A
4:00PM -6:30PM
T
G18 Foreign Languages Building
Tierney, R
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/27/12-12/12/12
Credit:
3 hours
Section Info:
EALC 398/550ANTH 499/550, Topic: Otherness and Minorities in Modern Japanese Literature. This course will examine the themes of otherness and difference in modern Japanese society through a selection of modern literary works as well as historical and social science readings. It will focus on general figures of cultural, ethnic and racial otherness as well as on writings either about or written by prominent minority groups in Japan such as the Ainu, burakumin (outcastes), Okinawans, zainichi Koreans (Korean residents of Japan), and Brazilian-Japanese. A central myth of the modern Japanese nation-state has been that the Japanese are racially and ethnically homogeneous. But is Japan as homogeneous or racially pure as some Japanese claim? How has Japan been shaped by its colonial empire and decolonization? How have members of minorities constructed their own post-colonial identities and defined their differences from the Japanese? Do sexual minorities exist within Japan? How have Japanese conceptions of difference changed over the course of the modern period? The course offers students a survey of major Japanese literary works and a theoretical introduction to the field of cultural studies.
31761
Lecture-Discussion
E
2:30PM -3:50PM
TR
336 Davenport Hall
Abelmann, N
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/27/12-12/12/12
Credit:
3 hours
Section Title:
Ethnography of East Asia
Section Info:
Ethnography of contemporary East Asia, will introduce recent ethnographic writing on Japan, the Koreas, and China/s. The ethnographic writings will span many topics but issues of youth, family, class, education, labor, and migration will be central. Book-length works will include Li Zhang's In Search of Paradise (on housing and China's middle class); Nicole Newendorp's Uneasy Reunions (on the PRC wives of Hong Kong men); Andrew Kipnis's Governing Educational Desire (on children and education in China); Gabriella Lukacs' Scripted Affects, Branded Selves (on young woman and trendy dramas in Japan); and Adrienne Lo at al, South Korea's Educational Exodus (on the pre-college study abroad of South Korean youth). Students will conduct original research, including life-histories, on Chinese, Japanese, and Korean international undergraduate students at the University of Illinois.
31764
Lecture-Discussion
G
3:00PM -5:20PM
F
G48 Foreign Languages Building
Nuffer, L
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/27/12-12/12/12
Section Info:
LOVE IN THE TIME OF COURTIERS: THE TALE OF GENJI THROUGH THE AGES Widely hailed as the world's first novel, The Tale of Genji stands as an enduring masterpiece of Japanese literature. Through careful reading and discussion, students will gain insight into the cultural and historical milieu in which The Tale of Genji took shape, as well as the role that it played in shaping subsequent Japanese literature. All course readings will be in English; students will be required to produce a substantial research paper on a related subject, which they will work on throughout the semester.
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