Research: Women's Writing and Diegetic Strategies of Representation of Depressive Disorders in Contemporary Japanese Literature (2000-2020).
Luna Frezza , Curriculum East Asia , 37th Cycle
ABSTRACT RESEARCH PROJECT
This research aims to conduct an analysis of the evolution of literary representations of psycho-emotional disorders in the panorama of women's writing in contemporary Japan (2000-2020). The literary topos of depression is proposed as a tool and key to understanding women's writing in a broader way by adopting a research approach which, starting from the construction of the characters, wants to give a further and new critical reading of the question. In this project I would like to analyze the production of contemporary female writers using the representation of psycho-emotional disorders as a key to understanding the scientific motivations that I'm going to illustrate.
The theme of depression is widely treated by women in contemporary society and, from a disorder connected to folkloric representations, it has evolved towards scientific parameters and terminologies. This project stems from the desire to understand and define the thematic and expressive changes in the lexicon that describes the profile of literary characters suffering from depressive crises, focusing in particular on part of the literature produced between 2000 and 2020 by female writers.
01-11-2020 – today: PhD candidate in Asian and African Civilizations at the Italian Institute of Oriental Studies (ISO) – Sapienza University of Rome
Project title: Women's Writing and Diegetic Strategies of Representation of Depressive Disorders in Contemporary Japanese Literature (2000-2020).
Supervisor: Matilde Mastrangelo (Sapienza, University of Rome); co-supervisor: Tsuchiya Junji (Waseda University)
09/2017-09/2020 Master's Degree in Oriental Languages and Civilizations - Sapienza, University of Rome. 110/110 with honors
09/2013-09/2017 Bachelor's Degree in Oriental Languages and Civilizations - Sapienza, University of Rome.
Other qualifications:
Annual Exchange Scholarship – Keio University. (2019-2020)
Annual Exchange Scholarship – Sophia University.(2016-2017)
Certificate of Participation in the "Mirai" Program - Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan. (2015)