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Contemporary Japanese Literature

Contemporary Japanese Literature

In this 8-week course, we will examine how today’s most highly-acclaimed Japanese writers—including Murakami Haruki, Kawakami Hiromi, Furukawa Hideo, and Yoshimoto Banana—demonstrate the novel’s power to enlist us to know and feel for people different from ourselves. We will also explore how other literary forms (e.g., poetry, art, essay, and film) open spaces for thinking about others, sympathy/empathy, and the imagination. No prior knowledge required. All Japanese texts are presented in English translation. Full schedule coming soon.
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Matthew Mewhinney
Matthew Mewhinney

PhD in Japanese
University of California, Berkeley

Matthew Mewhinney is Associate Professor in the Department of Japanese Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his Ph.D. in Japanese from the University of California, Berkeley, and previously taught at Boston University and Florida State University. His research interests include lyric poetry and theory, narrative, cinema, subjectivity, and translation.

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