Lecture: Wuthering Heights and Modern Japanese Literature
April 24, 2002
Lecture: Wuthering Heights and Modern Japanese Literature
Eve Zimmerman (Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature and Language, Wellesley College)
403 Kent Hall, Columbia University (116th St. & Amsterdam Ave.)
6:00 PM
| Professor Zimmerman will discuss the relationship between Wuthering Heights and modern Japanese women’s writing. Referring to three works: Wuthering Heights, the original text; Wuthering Heights, the play by Kono Taeko; and Tsushima Yuko’s fictional and non-fictional writings based on this classic text, Professor Zimmerman looks at the text’s initial arrival to Japan and, subsequently, how it has affected modern Japanese fiction. She then considers how Japanese authors have altered the text itself. Finally, Professor Zimmerman will discuss how the term “shojo,” or girl, in modern Japanese literature might be illuminated from Wuthering Heights. |
