Machine generated contents note: pt. VI Resources. Critical Approaches to "Japanese-Language Literature" / Miho Matsugu and Nobuko Chikamatsu -- Teaching Cross-Border Literature: Reading Mizumura Minae's Works / Angela Yiu -- Okinawa in the Modern Japanese Literary Imagination / Davinder L. Bhowmik -- Teaching Nakagami Kenji's "The Cape" through Translation / Eve Zimmerman -- pt. II Gender, Sexuality, Family, and Domestic Life -- Gender Studies and Modern Japanese Literature / Sharalyn Orbaugh -- Teaching Boys Love Comics / James Reichert -- Apprenticeship of Big Toe P in Japanese Literature, Gender Studies, and World Literature Courses / Joanne Quimby -- Reading Family in Postwar Japanese Literature / Brian Dowdle -- Mishima Yukio, Gender, and the "Japanese Mind" / Satoko Kakihara -- Japanese Postwar Literature and the Culture of Cooking / Chikako Nihei -- pt. III War and Memory -- Teaching Japanese War Crimes through Literature / Alex Bates -- Teaching Black Rain in Hiroshima / Kyoko Amano -- Nagasaki Atomic Bombing and Seirai Yuichi's "Birds" / Paul Petrovic -- Colonial Traces in Postwar Japanese Fiction / Seiji M. Lippit -- pt. IV Nature and Environment -- An Environmental Approach to the Works of Ishimure Michiko and Others / Patrick D. Murphy -- First-Person Animal Voices in Tawada Yoko's Memoirs of a Polar Bear / Christine L. Marran -- Teaching Disaster: The Fiction of 3/11 / Rachel DiNitto -- pt. V Classroom Contexts -- Tragedy before the Blood Commons: Araki Tetsuro, the "Crisis in the Humanity," and Animated Education / Will Bridges -- Kawabata Yasunari's Thousand Cranes in an Online World Literature Course / Lisa Tyler -- Murakami Haruki in the Literary Theory Classroom / Gary Rees -- Oishinbo and Japanese Food Cultures / Jason Herlands -- Teaching Japanese Fiction through Adaptation / Marc Yamada -- Japanese Literature in the Medical and Health Humanities Curriculum: Ariyoshi Sawako's The Twilight Tears / Karen L. Thornber -- Cultural Synesthesia and Transcending Temporal Identities: Teaching (Mis)reading in Endo Shiisaku's Silence / Laurie Camp Hatch -- Translation Practicum on Kawabata Yasunari's "Izu no odoriko" / Miho Matsugu and Nobuko Chikamatsu -- pt. VI Resources.
Summary:
"As Japan moved from the devastation of 1945 to the economic security that survived even the boom and bust of the 1980s and 1990s, its literature came to embrace new subjects and styles and to reflect on the nation's changing relationship to other Asian countries and to the West. This volume will help instructors introduce students to novels, short stories, and manga that confront postwar Japanese experiences, including the suffering caused by the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the echoes of Japan's colonialism and imperialism, new ways of thinking about Japanese identity and about minorities such as the zainichi Koreans, changes in family structures, and environmental disasters. Essays provide context for understanding the particularity of postwar Japanese literature, its place in world literature, and its connections to the Japanese past"-- Back cover.
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