ICLS1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Haruki Murakami, Yasunari Kawabata, Yukio Mishima
19 Aug 2018
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How the work of north american publishers of the 1950s shaped the way the world saw. Homecoming and some prefer nettles (examples used in article) Went hand-in-hand with north american literature at the time to help create a whole different image of japan. America"s geisha ally - an image created, images of japanese women as traditional aesthetical ideas of beauty in japan, these symbols needed to be rethought as to how they saw japan. They felt a need to construct a certain kind of positive image. Not in a propagandic way, just works created or the purpose of entertainment, somewhat motivated by a need to review the perspective of japan. Sayonara james a m -set in japan in 1950s, where american soldiers were stationed as a starting point station during the korean war; ally occupation of japan just finishing. Based vaguely on a stereotypical plot madam butterfly. Reconcile the american audience with japan, who was formerly seen as the enemy.
