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Re: Need cool Asian Literature for High School students
Posted by tle on 4/30/08

    have you considered showing scenes from Kurasawa's movies
    Ran or Throne of Blood (adaptations of Shakespeare plays
    King Lear and MacBeth)? It might be a good way to see the
    universal themes.

    On 4/30/08, bill wrote:
    > I am currently teaching a World Lit class and an am light
    > in the Asian Lit department. i'd like suggestions for a
    > novel by an Asian author, 20th century preferred, that I
    > could use as a whole class text. We start the year
    > focusing on Greek mythology and tragedy, segue from that
    > to Shakesperean tragedy. I'd like to keep the books
    > thematically related, so a hero/mythological themed book
    > would be the best fit.
    >
    > Help! Thanks!

     
     

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