S1 – 1. Reiko Abe Auestad: Emotions and Affect in Japanese Literature
Does one feel differently in Japanese novels? When Western novels came to Japan, they brought with them new ways for telling about the self and new models of feeling. Reiko Abe Auestad, Professor of Japanese Studies, talks to Karin Kukkonen about this culture clash of emotions and affect.
Reading recommendations:
Natsume Soseki, Kokoro (trans. Ika Kaminka). Solum Bokvennen, 2004.
Natsume Soseki, The Three-Cornered World (trans. Alan Turney). Peter Owen Publishers, 2011.
Kaori Ekuni, Twinkle, Twinkle (trans. Emi Shimokawa). Vertical Inc., 2003
Ryunosuke Akutagawa, "In a Bamboo Grove," in Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories (trans. Jay Rubin). Penguin Books, 2009.
Haruki Murakami, Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (trans. Jay Rubin). SD Books, 2012.
Reiko Abe Auestad, "The Affect that Disorients Kokoro". U of Hawai'i P, 2019.