EAST 461: Inventing the Modern Japanese Novel INSTRUCTOR: Brian Bergstrom Office: 688 Sherbrooke, Rm 262 (2nd

Floor), hrs 3-5pm Tues. Email: "#$%&'"(#)*+#,-.-/)$00'/% Mon./Wed. 1-2:30, ENGTR 1100

SCHEDULE:

CLASS DESCRIPTION: This class will examine the realist novel as a form that did certain kinds of work at different times and for different writers since the Meiji Restoration of 1868. It begins by examining issues of modernity and how they play out in works by canonical writers of the time, and then moves on to examine later novels that play with (and sometimes against) the formal constraints of the realist modern novel to examine issues of gender, genre, sexuality, class and ethno-national identity. METHODOLOGY: Classes will be organized as discussions of the reading materials assigned for each day; students are expected to come to class having read the days assignment beforehand. Grading will be based on participation (which includes attendance), as well as two papers and a presentation. The two papers will be as follows: a mid-term essay (3-5 pgs) responding to a prompt given beforehand, and a longer final paper (10-15 pgs) drawing on materials not restricted to those assigned on the syllabus (though outside research is not strictly required). Students are encouraged to meet with the instructor to discuss final papers between the midterm and Week 12. As well, there will be student presentations on texts throughout the semester, to be done either individually or in groups, depending on class size. Students will sign up for the texts about which they wish to present in advance. GRADING: Participation: 20% Mid-term Paper: 25% Presentation: 20% Final Paper: 35%
NOTE: Papers submitted late without a valid excuse will be lowered half a grade (A to A-, for example) for every day they are late

REQUIRED TEXTS: Natsume SOSEKI, Sanshiro, Jay Rubin, trans. (Penguin Classics, 2010) Shiro HAMAO, The Devils Disciple, J. Keith Vincent, trans. (London: Hesperus, 2011) YOKOMITSU Riichi, Shanghai, Dennis Washburn, trans. (Ann Arbor: U of Michigan, 2001) Fumiko HAYASHI, Floating Clouds, Lane Dunlop, trans. (New York: Columbia U Press, 2012) 1 !

NAKAGAMI Kenji, The Cape and Other Stories, Eve Zimmerman, trans. (Stone Bridge Press, 2008) Melissa WENDER, ed., Into the Light: An Anthology of Literature by Koreans in Japan (Honolulu: U of Hawai'i Press, 2011) Tomoyuki HOSHINO, We, the Children of Cats, Brian Bergstrom and Lucy Fraser, trans. (PM Press, 2012) MIZUMURA Minae, A True Novel, Juliet Winters Carpenter and Ann Sherif, trans., (Other Press, 2013) These books will be available for purchase at Paragraphe Bookstore 2220 McGill College Ave. [Tel: (514) 845-5811 - Fax: (514) 845-6917] NOTE: A True Novel will not be released until November 13, so plan on acquiring that book soon enough after this date to have read it by the time we being discussing it in class on November 25 Week 1: Intro 9/4 (Wed): Introductory Lecture & Discussion: What does it mean to say that the modern Japanese novel was invented? Week 2: Reality as Experience: Stimulated Subjectivity in Meiji 9/9 (Mon) Tayama KATAI, The Girl Watcher, Kenneth G. Henshall, trans., in The Quilt and Other Stories (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1981). Alisa FREEDMAN, Eyewitness Accounts: Observations of Salarymen and Schoolgirls on Tokyos First Trains, in Tokyo in Transit: Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road, 27-67. 9/11 (Wed) KAWABATA Yasunari, The Corpse Introducer, Alisa Freedman, trans., in Tokyo in Transit: Japanese Culture on the Rails and Roads, 225-266. Week 3: Urban Developments: Coming of Age with Sanshiro 9/16 (Mon) Natsume SOSEKI, Sanshiro, 3-139; Jay RUBIN, Translators Note, xli-xlix 9/18 (Wed) Natsume SOSEKI, Sanshiro, 139-228 2 !

Alisa FREEDMAN, Boys Who Feared Trains: University Students, Railway Trauma, and the Health of the Nation, in Tokyo in Transit: Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road, 68-116. Week 4: Uneven Developments: Narrating Childhood in Meiji and Taisho 9/23 (Mon): Higuchi ICHIYO, Childs Play, Robert Lyons Danly, trans., in In the Shade of Spring Leaves: the Life and Writings of Higuchi Ichiyo, a Woman of Letters in Meiji Japan (New Haven: Yale UP, 1981), 254-287. TANIZAKI Junichiro, The Little Kingdom, Paul McCarthy, trans., in A Cat, a Man, and Two Women (New York: Kodansha International, 1991), 101-136. KARATANI Kojin, The Discovery of the Child, in Origins of Modern Japanese Literature, Brett de Bary, et al., trans. and ed. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1993), 114-135. 9/25 (Wed): Shiro HAMAO, The Devils Disciple in The Devils Disciple, 1-42. HORI Tatsuo, Les Joues en Feu, John Rucinski, trans., in The Showa Anthology (Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1989), 28-37. Week 5: Ero-Guro: Interwar Experiments in Gender and Genre 9/30 (Mon): Shiro HAMAO, Did He Kill Them? in The Devils Disciple, 43-108. Edogawa RAMPO, The Twins, in Japanese Tales of Mystery and the Imagination (Rutland: Charles E. Tuttle, 1956), 123-142. Gregory PFLUGFELDER, The Pleasures of the Perverse: Male-Male Sexuality in Early Twentieth Century Popular Discourse, in Cartographies of Desire:!Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse, 1600-1950 Berkeley: U of California Press, 1999), 286-335. 10/2 (Wed): YOKOMITSU Riichi, Shanghai, Chapters 1-30, pp. 3-131. NAKAMOTO Takako, The Female Bell-Cricket, Yukiko Tanaka, trans., in To Live and to Write: Selections by Japanese Women Writers, 1913-1938 (Seattle: Seal Press, 1987), 135-144. PROMPTS FOR THE MIDTERM GIVEN OUT 3 !

Week 6: Wayward Suns: Shanghais Drifters, Ishiharas Tribe 10/7 (Mon): YOKOMITSU Riichi, Shanghai, Chapters 31-45, pp. 132-217. Seiji LIPPIT, Topographies of Empire: Yokomitsu Riichis Shanghai, in Topographies of Japanese Modernism (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002), 73-116. 10/9 (Wed): ISHIHARA Shintaro, Season of Violence, in Season of Violence, John G. Mills, Toshie Takahama, and Ken Tremayne, trans. Rutland: Tuttle, 1966. Ann SHERIF, The Aesthetics of Speed and the Illogicality of Politics: Ishihara Shintaro as a Cold War Youth, in Japans Cold War: Media, Literature, and the Law (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009), 173-202. Week 7: Drifting through History: Hayashi Fumiko and the Postwar Experience 10/14 Thanksgiving Day (no class) 10/16 (Wed): Fumiko HAYASHI, Floating Clouds (All) Optional: Seiji LIPPIT, Negations of Genre: Hayashi Fumikos Nomadic Writing, in Topographies of Japanese Modernism (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002), 159-196. Week 8: Ero-Guro II: The Postwar Politics of the Perverse 10/21 (Mon): MIDTERM ESSAYS DUE IN CLASS KURAHASHI Yumiko, The End of Summer, Victoria Vernon, trans., in Daughters of the Moon: Wish, Will, and Social Constraint in Fiction by Modern Japanese Women (Berkeley: University of California, 1988), 229-240. 10/23 (Wed): OE Kenzaburo. J, in 17 and J: Two Novels, Luk Van Haute, trans. (New York:Foxrock Books, 2002), 77-194. Week 9: Minor Literature I: Nakagami Kenji and the Burakumin Experience 10/28 (Mon): 4 !

NAKAGAMI Kenji. The Cape In The Cape and Other Stories from the Japanese Ghetto. Eve Zimmerman, trans. (New York: Stone Bridge Press, 1999). Edward FOWLER, The Buraku in Modern Japanese Literature: Texts and Contexts, The Journal of Japanese Studies, 26:1 (Winter, 2000), 1-39. 10/30 (Wed): NAKAGAMI Kenji, House on Fire, in The Cape and Other Stories from the Japanese Ghetto, Eve Zimmerman, trans. (New York: Stone Bridge Press, 1999). KIM Tal-su, In the Shadow of Mount Fuji, Sharalyn Orbaugh, trans., in Into the Light, 39-65. Week 10: Minor Literature II: Resident Korean (zainichi) Narratives 11/4 (Mon): NOGUCHI Kakuchu, Foreign Husband, Nayoung Aimee Kwon, trans., in Into the Light, 66-91. CHONG Chu-wol, The Korean Women I Love, Testament, Name, Melissa Wender and Norma Field, trans., in Into the Light, 112-131. Norma FIELD, Beyond Envy, Boredom, and Suffering: Toward an Emancipatory Politics for Resident Koreans and Other Japanese, in positions: east asia cultures critique, 1 (3) Winter 1993 (Special Issue: the Nationalisms Question), 640-670. 11/6 (Wed): YI Yang-ji, Yu-hee, Constance Prener, trans., in New Japanese Voices: The Best Contemporary Fiction from Japan, Helen Mitsios, ed. (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1991), 55-68. YI Yang-ji, Koku, Ann Sherif, trans., in Into the Light, 132-141. Melissa WENDER, Words that Breathe, in Lamentation as History: Narratives by Koreans in Japan, 1965-2000. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005. Week 11: Yu Miri and Tomoyuki Hoshino: Private Selves and Public Lives 11/11 (Mon): YU Miri, Full House, Melissa Wender, trans., in Into the Light, 172-219. Melissa WENDER, Private Traumas, Public Therapies, in Lamentation as 5 !

History: Narratives by Koreans in Japan, 1965-2000 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005). 11/13 (Wed): Tomoyuki HOSHINO, Chino, and Air in We, the Children of Cats, 34-50, 76-91. Week 12: Tomoyuki Hoshino II: Interrogating the Production of the Real 11/18 (Mon): Tomoyuki HOSHINO, Sand Planet, in We, the Children of Cats, 92-152. Oscar HORST and Katsuhiro ASAGIRI, The Odyssey of Japanese Colonists in the Dominican Republic, Geographical Review, Vol. 90, No. 3, (July 2000), 335-358. 11/20 (Wed): Tomoyuki HOSHINO, Treason Diary, in We, the Children of Cats, 153-184. Adrienne Carey HURLEY, Engendering First World Fears: The Teenager and the Terrorist in Revolutionary Suicide: Narratives of Youth and Violence from Japan and the United States. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011, 122-147. Week 13: A True Novel Part I: Can a Novel Be True? 11/25 (Mon): MIZUMURA Minae, A True Novel, Part 1. 11/27 (Wed): MIZUMURA Minae, A True Novel, Part II. Week 14: A True Novel Part II: What is a True Novel? 12/3 (Mon): MIZUMURA Minae, A True Novel, Part III. 12/4 (Tues): MIZUMURA Minae, A True Novel, Part IV, and Class Wrap-up. FINAL PAPER DUE BY MIDNIGHT, DECEMBER 15
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