Session 20—Th, March 22: Ōe Kenzaburō and his A Personal Matter (1964) Session 1

Topics for this session

◆ Ōe Kenzaburō—biography & concepts
◆ Ōe Kenzaburō—Hiroshima Notes
◆ Ōe Kenzaburō—A Personal Matter (1964)

Thoughts*

I typically ask students a lot of questions during this lecture. Please come having read the material and formulated some thoughts about it.

Required—to be completed for today's session

✓ Read A Personal Matter, chapters 1-4

Texts, multimedia notes, links*

◊ Ōe Hikari's music [in class only, audio clip]

Other*

nothing yet ...

*THOUGHTS: Reading before class probably helps follow session content, reading afterwards might help consolidate notes, revisiting for tests is recommended. Content might be added before class or anytime up until about 24 hours ahead of a midterm.

*TEXTS, MULTIMEDIA NOTES, LINKS: If I have read from something, shown something or presented audio, I usually include that information here. If I consider it testable material, it will definitely be listed here. Miscellaneous material that I show may or may not be listed. I often add material at the last minute and hope to have time later to note it, but often cannot.

*OTHER: When possible I note here names, places, and other details that I have mentioned in a lecture that would otherwise not be accessible in the assigned materials or easily located on your own. As with "TEXTS ..." this is usually sometime after class and, again, I might not be able to get around to doing it.