Scholarly publications by Michael K. Bourdaghs (updated 6/1/08)

 

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Books:

 

The Dawn That Never Comes:  Shimazaki Tôson and Japanese Nationalism.  (New York:  Columbia University Press, 2003).  Book.

 

Edited Volumes:

 

Natsume Sôseki, Theory of Literature and Other Critical Writings, edited by Michael K. Bourdaghs, Atsuko Ueda, and Joseph A. Murphy.  Forthcoming in 2008 from Columbia University Press.  Edited book.

 

The Linguistic Turn in Contemporary Japanese Literary Studies:  Textuality, Language, Politics.   Edited and with an introduction by Michael K. Bourdaghs.  Forthcoming from University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies Publications.  Edited book.

 

Japan Forum 20:1 (March 2008), special issue on Natsume Sōseki’s Bungakuron (Theory of literature), guest edited by Joseph A. Murphy, Atsuko Ueda, and Michael K. Bourdaghs.

 

Kamei Hideo, Transformations of Sensibility:  The Phenomenology of Meiji Literature (original Japanese title:  Kansei no henkaku, 1983), translation edited and with an introduction by Michael Bourdaghs. (Ann Arbor:  University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies  Publications, 2002).  Edited book.

 

Articles and Chapters:

 

Owning Up To Sōseki: The Theory of Literature vs. the Theory of Copyright,” forthcoming in Proceedings of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies, 2008.  Research article.

 

Property and Sociological Knowledge:  Natsume Sōseki and the Gift of Narrative,” Japan Forum 20:1 (March 2008), 79-101.  Research article. 

 

“‘Kindai Nihon Bungaku’ to ‘Modern Japanese Literature’ no aida:  yume no ukihashi no yukue” (Between ‘Kindai Nihon Bungaku’ and ‘Modern Japanese Literature’:  A floating bridge of dreams).  Nihon Kindai Bungaku 75 (2006), 232-238.  Article.

 

Za Kinkusu:  Ray Davies and the Rise and Fall and Rise of Japanese Rock and Roll.”  Popular Music and Society 29:2 (May 2006), 213-221.  Research article.

 

“Eigoken ni okeru Bungakuron:  Riron, kagaku, shoyû” (Bungakuron in the English-Speaking World:  Theory, Science, Possession).  Kokubungaku 51:3 (March 2006), 137-147.  Research article.

 

What it Sounds Like to Lose an Empire:  Happy End and the Kinks,” in Tsu Yun Hui, ed., Perspectives on Social Memory in Japan (Folkestone, Kent, UK:  Global Oriental, 2005), 115-133.  Chapter in edited book.

 

The Calm Beauty of Japan at Almost the Speed of Sound:  Sakamoto Kyû and the Translations of Rockabilly,” in Francoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih, ed’s., Minor Transnationalism (Durham:  Duke University Press, 2005), 237-258.  Chapter in edited book.

 

“Mystery Plane:  Sakamoto Kyû and the Translations of Rockabilly.”  Proceedings of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies 3 (2002), 38-50.  Research article. 

 

“Kiyo toshite no sutekki:  Natsume Sôseki Higan sugi made no shakaigaku” (Walking stick as gift:  The Sociology of Natsume Sôseki’s Until the Spring Equinox).  Nihon bungei ronsô 15 (March 2002), 45-59.  Research article.

 

“Sôseki Natsume and the Fluctuating Values of Property,”  The Japan Foundation Newsletter 28:3-4 (June 2001), 8-11.  Popular article. 

 

"Tenkô to kindai Nihon bungakushi to iu monogatari no seiritsu:  Shôwa 10-nen zengo ni okeru Shimazaki Tôson no saihyôka" (Political apostasy and the formation of the narrative of modern Japanese literary history:  The 1930s' reevaluation of Shimazaki Tôson) in Bungaku shisô konwa kai, ed., Kindai no yume to chisei:  Bungaku shisô no Shôwa 10-nen zengo (1925-1945) (Tokyo:  Kanrin Shobô, 2000), 332-359.  Chapter in edited book.

 

"The Disease of Nationalism, The Empire of Hygiene," positions (Duke University Press) 6:3 (1999), 637-673.  Research article.

 

"The Japan That Can 'Say Yes':  Bubblegum Music in a Post-Bubble Economy,"  Literature and Psychology,  44:4 (1998), 61-86.  Research article.

 

"Nashonarizumu no yamai, eiseigaku to iu teikoku" (The Disease of Nationalism, the Empire of Hygiene), Ueda Atsuko and Sakakibara Richi, translators.    Gendai shisō 25:8 (July 1997), 24-51. Research article.

 

"Shimazaki Tôson's Hakai and Its Bodies," in Helen Hardacre and Adam L. Kern, eds, New Directions in the Study of Meiji Japan (Leiden:  Brill, 1997), 161-188. Chapter in edited book..

 

"Yoake mae to rekishiteki jikan" (Shimazaki Tôson's Before the Dawn and the Problem of Historical Time) in Dai 8 kai Nihon kenkyû kokusai seminaa '94:  kindai e no tenkanki ni okeru Tôson bungaku  (Fukuoka UNESCO Association, 1995).  Reprinted in Fukuoka UNESCO Kai, ed., Sekai ga yomu Nihon kindai bungaku III (Tokyo:  Maruzen Books, 1999), 47-64.   Chapter in edited book.

 

Translations:

 

Natsume Sōseki, “Preface” to Theory of Literature (Bungakuron, 1907) and “The Philosophical Foundations of the Literary Arts (“Bungei no tetsugakuteki kiso,” 1907), in Theory of Literature and Other Critical Writings, ed. Bourdaghs, Ueda, and Murphy (forthcoming from Columbia University Press, 2008).

 

Ishimure Michiko, “Reborn from the Earth Scarred by Modernity: Minamata Disease and the Miracle of the Human Desire to Live” (2008). In Japan Focus (refereed on-line journal; April 2008) (http://japanfocus.org/products/details/2732).

 

18 Haiku by Kikaku.” In BigCityLit.com (on-line journal; Febrary 2004) (http://www.nycbigcitylit.com/feb2004/default.htm).

 

 

Reviews and Review Articles:

 

Dennis Washburn, Translating Mount Fuji:  Modern Japanese Fiction and the Ethics of Identity (Columbia University Press, 2007).  Journal of Japanese Studies 34:1 (Winter 2008), 216-220.  Book review. 

 

Richard F. Calichman, ed., Contemporary Japanese Thought (Columbia University Press, 2005).  Philosophy East and West 57:4 (October 2007), 601-603.  Book review.

 

Hiroshi Aoyagi, Land of Eight Million Smiles:  Idol Performance and Symbolic Production in Contemporary Japan (Harvard University Asia Center, 2005).  Pacific Affairs 78:3 (Fall 2005), 480-481.  Book review.

 

Yumiko Iida, Rethinking Identity in Modern Japan:  Nationalism as Aesthetics (Routledge, 2002).  The Journal of Japanese Studies 31:1 (2005), 232-236.  Book review.

 

John Pierre Mertz, Novel Japan: Spaces of Nationhood in Early Meiji Narrative, 1870-88 (University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies Publications, 2003). The Journal of Asian Studies 63:4 (November 2004), 1140-1141.  Book review. 

 

“Kokusaika no naka no Tôson:  Ôbei no baai” (Tôson and internationalization:  the situation in the West), Shimazaki Tôson kenkyû 29 (2001), 40-48.  Review article.

 

Unpublished works:

 

"Shimazaki Tôson and the Ideologies of Nationalism:  Imagining Japan and the United States."  Doctoral dissertation, Cornell University, August 1996.

 

Shimazaki Tôson’s Hakai and the National Body:  A Comparative Study with Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle.”  Master’s thesis.  Cornell University.  August 1993.

 

 

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