Asian Studies 265 - Modern Japanese & Korean Lit

'This course explores the modern literature of Japan and Korea in a cultural and historical context, beginning with the genesis of their first modern novels, passing through left-wing literature and modernist experimentation of the 1920s and 1930s, colonialism, WWII and Korean War accounts, student democracy activism in the 1960s, and ending with the rise of women writers in the 1970s and 1980s. While parallels between the two national literatures are assumed at the outset, we will also discuss important differences and the cultural and historical factors that may account for them.'