JPN 195-01 - Special Topic: Remembering/Forgetting Modern Japan

4 credits (Fall)

This course explores narratives of modern Japanese history with a focus on the creation and maintenance of personal and public memory, individual and national history. Equal emphasis will be placed on the excluded, the lacunae, of historical narratives. Reading topices will include war and empire, disaster and terrorism, amateur memoirs, ethnography, and mass memory in media/pop culture. Accompanied by film series.

Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Hopson