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Michael K. Bourdaghs's Home Page
マイケル･ボーダッシュのホームページ
Welcome! This page contains information about my
work in modern Japanese literature and culture, my
creative writing, my everchanging musical likes and
dislikes, and other useless information. All opinions,
rational conclusions, emotional outbursts, etc., are my
own. All errors are the fault of someone else.
マイケル･ボーダッシュのホームページ
Welcome! This page contains information about my
work in modern Japanese literature and culture, my
creative writing, my everchanging musical likes and
dislikes, and other useless information. All opinions,
rational conclusions, emotional outbursts, etc., are my
own. All errors are the fault of someone else.
Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon: My Blog
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Artwork by Versea Bourdaghs (1941-2008)
All contents copyright 2003-2011 by Michael K. Bourdaghs
Recent Scholarly Publications:
(Complete listing available here. Upated on 7/2/11)
(Complete listing available here. Upated on 7/2/11)
The Dawn That Never Comes: Shimazaki Toson and Japanese Nationalism
(Columbia University Press, 2003. Here's the publisher's blurb on the book.
(Columbia University Press, 2003. Here's the publisher's blurb on the book.
"Sōseki to 'sekai bungaku' to iu mondai" (Natsume Sōseki and the Problem of ‘World
Literature), paper to be presented at "Globalizing Natsume Sôseki’ s Theory of Literature"
symposium, University of Tokyo, December 22, 2011.
Comparative Modernisms Workshop, Program in Comparative Literature Studies, Northwestern
University, Evanston, IL, January 27, 2012.
"What Does the J in J-Pop Stand For?," presentation at "Teaching Japan for K-12 series: Explore
the Pedagogical Possibilities," DePaul University, Chicago, IL, February 4, 2012.
"Tokyo Boogie-Woogie Crosses the Pacific," roundtable panel, Association for Asian Studies
Annual Meeting, Toronto, March 15-18, 2012.
Recent Fiction and Creative Writing:
(Complete listing available here. Updated on 11/2/10)
(Complete listing available here. Updated on 11/2/10)
"Timing is Everything," short story, published in
Temporary Infinity #2 in March, 2011.
"Invasive Species," short story, published in Avery:
An Anthology of New Fiction, #4 (2009). The
Emperor of Japan takes historical responsibility, one
fish at a time.
Translations of haiku by Kikaku that I did for the
February 2004 special "Japan" issue of
BigCityLit.com, which I guest-edited together with
Tomer Inbar.
"Memoirs of a Geist," short story, published in
Hawai'i Pacific Review, Vol. 16 (2002). Man
walks into a bar; turns out he's Hegel's Geist.
"Disorientation Day," short story, published in
Colere, Vol. 2 (2002). Rockabilly meets Husker Du
on the streets of Tokyo, circa 1987.
"A Hazard of New Fortunes," short story, published
in Elysian Fields Quarterly, Vol. 19, No. 1 (2002).
Kuki Shuzo and the Minnesota Twins, together at
last.... You can read a sample and order a copy here.
Temporary Infinity #2 in March, 2011.
"Invasive Species," short story, published in Avery:
An Anthology of New Fiction, #4 (2009). The
Emperor of Japan takes historical responsibility, one
fish at a time.
Translations of haiku by Kikaku that I did for the
February 2004 special "Japan" issue of
BigCityLit.com, which I guest-edited together with
Tomer Inbar.
"Memoirs of a Geist," short story, published in
Hawai'i Pacific Review, Vol. 16 (2002). Man
walks into a bar; turns out he's Hegel's Geist.
"Disorientation Day," short story, published in
Colere, Vol. 2 (2002). Rockabilly meets Husker Du
on the streets of Tokyo, circa 1987.
"A Hazard of New Fortunes," short story, published
in Elysian Fields Quarterly, Vol. 19, No. 1 (2002).
Kuki Shuzo and the Minnesota Twins, together at
last.... You can read a sample and order a copy here.
Kamei Hideo, Transformations of Sensibility: The Phenomenology of Meiji
Literature, translation edited and with an introduction by Michael Bourdaghs,
University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies Publications, 2002. You can read
the publisher's blurb on the book here.
Literature, translation edited and with an introduction by Michael Bourdaghs,
University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies Publications, 2002. You can read
the publisher's blurb on the book here.
Upcoming and Recent Public Lectures and Conferences:
(Past events listed here. Updated on 11/22/11)
(Past events listed here. Updated on 11/22/11)
Natsume Soseki, Theory of Literature and Other Critical Writings, edited by
Michael K. Bourdaghs, Atsuko Ueda, and Joseph A. Murphy, Columbia University Press
(2009). The publisher's blurb is here.
Michael K. Bourdaghs, Atsuko Ueda, and Joseph A. Murphy, Columbia University Press
(2009). The publisher's blurb is here.
The Linguistic Turn in Contemporary Japanese Literary Studies: Politics,
Textuality, Language, Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, Number 68; edited
by Michael K. Bourdaghs; University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies Publications,
2010. (US$70.00 hardcover, $26.00 paperback)
Textuality, Language, Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, Number 68; edited
by Michael K. Bourdaghs; University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies Publications,
2010. (US$70.00 hardcover, $26.00 paperback)
Coming in 2012 from Columbia University Press: Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara
Nippon: A Geopolitical Pre-History of J-Pop.
Nippon: A Geopolitical Pre-History of J-Pop.
"Michael Bourdaghs' compellingly readable
Sayonara Amerika Sayonara Nippon: A
Geopolitical Prehistory of J-Pop has imaginatively
conceived an original account of how Japan, in the
post-war and Cold War years, was able to break
with an historical narrative centered on the U.S.
military occupation and Japan's subsequent
confinement within the American imperium to enter
the actual world. Through the production of diverse
forms of popular music and the formation of its
audiences, Bourdaghs persuasively shows how
Japan moved to engaging a genuinely global
geopolitical aesthetics, shaping it and being shaped
by it, that successfully left behind the narrow
precinct of America's Japan for the new world
announced by J-Pop." — Harry Harootunian, The
Struggle Between History and Memory (Duke
University Press)
Sayonara Amerika Sayonara Nippon: A
Geopolitical Prehistory of J-Pop has imaginatively
conceived an original account of how Japan, in the
post-war and Cold War years, was able to break
with an historical narrative centered on the U.S.
military occupation and Japan's subsequent
confinement within the American imperium to enter
the actual world. Through the production of diverse
forms of popular music and the formation of its
audiences, Bourdaghs persuasively shows how
Japan moved to engaging a genuinely global
geopolitical aesthetics, shaping it and being shaped
by it, that successfully left behind the narrow
precinct of America's Japan for the new world
announced by J-Pop." — Harry Harootunian, The
Struggle Between History and Memory (Duke
University Press)
