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Teaching Postwar Japanese Fiction

Editor: Alex Bates

Published: 2023

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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

Subjects: Japanese Literature

Approaches to Teaching Murasaki Shikibu’s The Tale of Genji

Editor: Edward Kamens

Published: 1993

Approaches to Teaching World Literature

Arguably the most important work of premodern Japanese literature, Murasaki Shikibu’s The Tale of Genji is a fictional narrative of courtly life in ancient Japan. This thousand-year-old text is now being taught with increasing frequency in college courses and seminars on comparative literature, women’s studies, world literature, Asian studies, and medieval studies. Approaches to Teaching

Subjects: Feminist and Gender Studies, Japanese Literature