EALC 550

Fall 2012

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Credit: 4 hours.

Seminar on selected topics. Topic varies with instructor.

May be repeated to a maximum of 12 hours. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.

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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
45337
Lecture-Discussion
A
4:00PM -6:30PM
T
Foreign Languages Building
Tierney, R
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/27/12-12/12/12
Credit:
4 hours
Section Info:
EALC 398/550ANTH 499, 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.
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
46500
Lecture-Discussion
EG
2:30PM -3:50PM
TR
Davenport Hall
Abelmann, N
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/27/12-12/12/12
Section Info:
Meets with EALC 398/ANTHRO 499. 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.
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
31769
Lecture-Discussion
S
12:30PM -2:50PM
T
English Building
Shao, D
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/27/12-12/12/12
Section Info:
Topic: Women and Gender in Chinese History
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