To gain general understanding on how Asia is and has been represented in “the West” (Europe and the US).
The course focuses on how Asia has been and is represented on Western art, media discourses and literature.
Compensatory literature: Edward Said (1978) Orientalism
Susan Napier (2007) From Impressionism to Anime. Japan as Fantasy and Fan Cult in the Mind of the West.
Parts of these will also be used in the lectures.