March 15 Agenda
- Japanese Literary History
- Oldest works of literature = 2 histories (written using Chinese characters)
- Manyoshu = 1st book written in Japanese, a book of poetry with tanka
- Tale of the Bamboo Cutter = one of 1st stories of Japan
- Tale of Genji = 1st novel, written in Heian Japan
- The Pillow Book, also written in Heian
- Japanese Literature theme
- mono-no-aware; feeling of being connected to nature and all things
- Feminist Literature
- What is feminism?
- What is feminist literature?
- Rice Bowl Women
- Read first pages of Japan history
- How is Heian Japan feminist/not?
- Taketori Monogatari
- Read first 5 pages
- How is it feminist?
- How is it not?
- Haiku
