JPN 430G - SELF AND OTHER: THE POLITICS OF CULTURE IN JAPAN-U.S. RELATIONSHIP

College of Arts & Sciences

Credit(s): 3

This course explores changing images and ideas that America (the West) and Japan (the East) have had of one another during the modern century (roughly 1850s - 1980s) and in the more recent period of post-modernity (1990s - present) of their interactions. It examines the cultural politics of representations - images, ideas, and discourses - between Self and Other by viewing mutual constructions of ‘America’ and ‘Japan’ as its paradigmatic example.