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Celebrating the Many AAPI Classic Writers
May Spotlight: Celebrating ETC's Many AAPI Playwrights
Cheers to our many playwrights of
Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage
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Click on one of the photos below to learn about how these women were ground breaking artists of their time and how their legacies continue today!
This April, the Miu Miu Literary Club featured Fumiko Enchi’s novel The Waiting Years. This year’s club was themed around Women’s Education.
& two other Japanese American Women creatives who were sent to US internment camps as teens.
Video Interview:
Prasar Bharati interviews Devi about her activism and huge breath of work.
This Month, Gagarin and Kalina Discussed:
Rain of Ice
by Hasegawa Shigure
The Inheritance
by Kim Ja-Rim
Spotlight On: Rain of Ice
Who was Hasegawa Shigure?
Regarded as Japan’s first female playwright
The run of her kabuki play, Chastity, was seen by over 40,000 people
She founded Play, a magazine publishing translations of Western writers, such as Strindberg and Chekov
Supported the careers of many women writers and wrote extensively about women’s issues in early 20th century Japan
What’s So Cool About Rain of Ice?
All Female Cast (of 5) & complex interpersonal relationships
Intensely real drama with juicy metaphors woven into the text
Honest conversations about sex work & the people who are involved in it
But we won’t spoil everything 😉
Don’t miss our latest episode of THIS IS A CLASSIC to learn about
Kim Ja-Rim’s The Inheritance and Hasegawa Shigure’s Rain of Ice
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