This course examines how Japanese writers from the Meiji Restoration through the middle of the 20th Century explore themes of self-representation in literature in the face of modernizing and globalizing understandings of the self and nation. Authors include Natsume Soseki, Tanizaki Junichiro, Akutagawa Ryunosuke Kawabata Yasunari, Mishima Yukio, and Enchi Fumiko. Prerequisites: EASIA 101 or consent of the department.