Images of Japan: readings
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Gaye Rowley, Waseda University
A coursepack containing selections from the following texts will be made available for purchase. Berger, John. "Ways of Seeing". British Broadcasting Corporation and Penguin Books, 1977.
Duras, Marguerite. "Hiroshima Mon Amour", trans. Richard Seaver. New York: Grove Press, 1961.
Igarashi Yoshikuni. “The Bomb, Hirohito, and History: The Foundational Narrative of United States-Japan Postwar Relations.” positions 6.2 (1998): 261-302.
Johnson, Sheila K. “The Sexual Nexus,” in The Japanese Through American Eyes. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988.
Kelsky, Karen. “Flirting with the Foreign: Interracial Sex in Japan’s ‘International Age’,” in Rob Wilson and Wiman Dissanayake, eds., Global/Local: Cultural Production in the Transnational Imaginary . Durham: Duke University Press, 1996.
Klein, Christina. "Cold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination", 1945-1961. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.
Marchetti, Gina. “The Return of the Butterfly,” “The Scream of the Butterfly,” and “Tragic and Transcendant Love,” in Romance and the "Yellow Peril”: Race, Sex and Discursive Strategies in Hollywood Fiction. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
Mostow, Joshua S. “Rising Son: Race, Women, and Exchange in the Film Rising Sun,” U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal no. 16 (1999): 87-102.
