Course Details
Course offered Autumn 2021
HONORS 210 C: Okinawa in the Japanese Literary Imagination (A&H, DIV, W)
HONORS 210 C: Okinawa in the Japanese Literary Imagination (A&H, DIV, W)
SLN 16393 (View UW registration info »)
Credits: 5
Limit: 35 students
This course introduces students to modern prose fiction, poetry, drama, and film that depict Okinawa, Japan’s tropical playground on one hand, and its military colony on the other. While the focus of the class will be on representations of Okinawa in literature and the occasional film we will also pay close attention to the socio-historical context of the works in order to more fully understand them. In addition to introducing students to the variety of literature and film from and about Okinawa, the course will train students to read carefully and critically; to develop the ability to construct sound readings of literary works, and to argue these readings persuasively in English. All course material will be considered historically as well as analytically. No knowledge of Japanese is required; all works are in English translation and films are subtitled.