Miyoshi / Cazdyn / Fish Trespasses

Selected Writings
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9248-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 379 Seiten

Reihe: Post-Contemporary Interventions

Trespasses presents key writings of the cultural critic Misao Miyoshi, including eleven previously published selections and a major new essay in which he calls for a global environmental protection studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Miyoshi, Masao

Cazdyn, Eric

Fish, Stanley

Jameson, Fredric

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword / Fredric Jameson xi

Introduction. Trespasser: An Introduction to the Life and Work of Masao Miyoshi / Eric Cazdyn xv

Literary Elaborations 1

First-Person Pronouns in Japanese Diaries (1979) 49

The Tale of Genji: Translation as Interpretation (1979) 77

Who Decides, and Who Speaks? Shutaisei and the West in Postwar Japan (1991) 83

The Invention of English Literature in Japan (1993) 111

A Borderless World? From Colonialism to Transnationalism and the Decline of the Nation-State (1993) 127

Outside Architecture (1996) 151

"Bunburying" in the Japan Field: A Reply to Jeff Humphries (1997) 159

Art without Money: documenta X (1998) 175

Japan Is Not Interesting (1999) 189

Ivory Tower in Escrow: Ex Uno Plures (2000) 205

Turn to the Planet: Literature and Diversity, Ecology and Totality (2001) 243

A Conversation with Masao Miyoshi (2000) 263

Notes 285

Selected Works by Masao Miyoshi 331

Index 333

Über Autor(innen)

Masao Miyoshi (1928–2009) was the Hajime Mori Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Japanese, English, and Comparative Literature at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of several books, including Off Center: Power and Culture Relations between Japan and the United States, Accomplices of Silence: The Modern Japanese Novel, and this is not here. He is a co-editor of Learning Places: The Afterlives of Area Studies, The Cultures of Globalization, and Postmodernism and Japan, all also published by Duke University Press.Eric Cazdyn is Professor of Comparative Literature and East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto. He is the author of The Flash of Capital: Film and Geopolitics in Japan, also published by Duke University Press.