Course name: EAS 150 Care and Healing in Modern Japanese Literature
Instructor: Margherita Long
- Course code: 23071 | Room: HH 112 | Time: TuTh, 3:30-4:50pm (Lecture)
Course description:
This class introduces classic novels and stories from modern Japan to discuss care and care work. Five big questions shape our reading. First are feminist questions. If we think of care work as taking care of children, the elderly and the sick, is it only ever drudgery? Or does it teach us something? Is care work “healing?” Second are ecological questions. How do we take care of each other amidst climate change, pollution, and the anxiety they generate? Third are neurodiversity questions. Is it a disability to need care to live? What do disability and neurodiversity activists in Japan say? Fourth are labor questions.