Day: Mondays
Time: 12:30-3:00 p.m.
Location: Girvetz 1108
Enrollment Code: 56911
Description:
In the 1990s in Japan, “the child” and it’s development became the site
of a newly intensified nexus of social anxiety. Disclosed in what for the
most part became household terms during this period such as “children
turning strange”, or “collapse of the classroom”, a larger discourse of
social crisis and collapse made “the child” it’s focus. Taking this anxiety
as the focal point, this course examines the production of images of
“the child” and the concerted body of associations about nature, culture,
and history particular to this moment in Japan that they evoke.
Professor Sabine Fruhstuck, East Asian Language & Cultural Studies, is interested in the historical and sociological study of modern and contemporary Japanese culture and society; including problems of power/knowledge, gender/sexuality, and military/society. She teaches courses such as Violence and the State in Modern Japan, (Japan 25, lower division) Culture and Society of Modern Japan, (Japan 63, lower division) Introduction to East Asian Cultures, (EACS 4B, lower division) Representations of Sexuality in Modern Japan, (Japan 162, upper division); cross-listed with History and Anthropology, Modernity and the Masses in Taisho Japan, (Japan 164, upper division) cross-listed with History Popular Culture in Japan (Japan 165, upper division) Japan Modern, (Japan 226, graduate seminar) Topics in Modern East Asian Cultural Studies: Colonialism/Postcolonialism, (East Asian 215, graduate seminar) Independent Research Assistance (Japanese 199RA). Gender & Sexuality in Modern Japan. (INT 94BC, freshman seminar)
Email: fruhstuck@eastasian.ucsb.edu
