Historiography of Modern Japan: Proseminar

Harvard FAS

Our purpose in this course is to develop a bibliographic and historiographic command of modern Japanese history as a teaching and research field. We will pay particularly close attention to the master narratives and political concerns that have underwritten English-language histories of Japan in the decades since the close of the Pacific War, beginning with the intense debates of the Cold War and continuing through the emergence of gender studies, colonial studies, critical theory,…