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Owning Up to
Sōseki: Property, Knowledge, and the Origins of Twentieth-Century
Literature (tentative
working title). Book manuscript
currently in preparation.
Sayonara
Amerika, Sayonara Nippon: A Geopolitical
Pre-History of J-Pop.
A
critical study of Japanese popular music from 1945 to the early 1990s. (New York:
Columbia University Press, 2012).
Paperback in 2012. Book.
The
Dawn That Never Comes: Shimazaki Tōson
and Japanese Nationalism. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003). Book.
The
Linguistic Turn in Contemporary Japanese Literary Studies: Textuality, Language, Politics. Edited
and with an introduction by Michael K. Bourdaghs. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Center for
Japanese Studies Publications, 2010).
Paperback in 2010. Edited book.
Natsume Sôseki, Theory
of Literature and Other Critical Writings, edited by Michael K.
Bourdaghs, Atsuko Ueda, and Joseph A. Murphy.
(New York: Columbia University
Press, 2009). Paperback in 2010. 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.
“Japan's Orient
in Song and Dance" in Richard King, et al. ed.'s, Sino-Japanese
Transculturation: From the Late
Nineteenth Century to the End of the Pacific War (Landham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2011), 167-187. Research Article.
“Novelistic
Desire, Theoretical Attitude, and Translating Heteroglossia: Reading Natsume Sōseki’s Sanshirō Around
「二つの終わり・島崎藤村『夜明け前』」“Futatsu no owari: Shimazaki
Tōson Yoake mae” (Two
endings: Shimazaki Tōson’s Before the Dawn), Kokubungaku: Kaishaku to
kanshō 『国文学・解釈と鑑賞』75:9 (September 2010), 82-90.
Research article.
“Owning Up To Sōseki: The Theory of
Literature vs. the Theory of Copyright,” Proceedings
of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies, 9 (2008), 15-29. Research article.
“Property and Sociological Knowledge:
Natsume Sōseki and the Gift of Narrative,” Japan
Forum 20:1 (March 2008), 79-101.
Research article. Winner of the
2009 Toshiba International Foundation Prize from the British Association for
Japanese Studies.
「『近代日本文学』と『Modern Japanese Literature』の間・夢の浮橋の行方」“‘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 『日本近代文学』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.
「英語圏における『文学論』―理論・化学・所有」“Eigoken ni okeru Bungakuron:
Riron, kagaku, shoyū” (Bungakuron in the English-Speaking
World: Theory, Science,
Possession). Kokubungaku 『国文学』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 Kyū and the
Translations of Rockabilly.” Proceedings
of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies 3 (2002), 38-50. Research article.
「寄与としてのステッキ・夏目漱石『彼岸過迄』の社会学」“Kiyo toshite no
sutekki: Natsume Sōseki Higan
sugi made no shakaigaku” (Walking stick as gift: The Sociology of Natsume Sōseki’s Until
the Spring Equinox). Nihon bungei
ronsō 『日本文芸論叢』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.
「転向と近代日本文学史という物語の成立・昭和１０年前後における島崎藤村の再評価」"Tenkō
to kindai Nihon bungakushi to iu monogatari no seiritsu: Shōwa 10-nen zengo ni okeru Shimazaki Tōson
no saihyōka" (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 shisō no
Shōwa 10-nen zengo (1925-1945) 『近代の夢と知性・文学思想の昭和10年前後(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.
「ナショナリズムの病、衛生学という帝国」"Nashonarizumu
no yamai, eiseigaku to iu teikoku" (The Disease of Nationalism, the Empire
of Hygiene), Ueda Atsuko and Sakakibara Richi, translators. Gendai
shisō 『現代思想』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..
「『夜明け前』と歴史的時間」"Yoake
mae to rekishiteki jikan"
(Shimazaki Tōson's Before the Dawn
and the Problem of Historical Time) in
Dai 8 kai Nihon kenkyū kokusai seminaa '94: kindai e no tenkanki ni okeru Tōson
bungaku (Fukuoka UNESCO Association, 1995). Reprinted in Fukuoka UNESCO Kai, ed., Sekai
ga yomu Nihon kindai bungaku III 『世界が読む日本近文学III』(Tokyo: Maruzen Books, 1999), 47-64. Chapter in edited book.
Karatani
Kōjin, “The Ending of the Modern Novel” (“Kindai bungaku no owari,” 1988),
in Karatani, History
and Repetition, e ed. Seiji Lippit (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011), 151-171.
Higuchi
Ichiyō, “This Child” (Kono ko, 1896), in Noriko Mizuta and Kyoko Iriye
Selden, eds., More
Stories by Japanese Women Writers: Anthology
(Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2010), 3-8.
Wada Haruki, “Resolving the China-Japan
Conflict Over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands” (2010). In The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan
Focus 43-3-10, (refereed on-line journal; October
2010) (http://japanfocus.org/-Wada-Haruki/3433)
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 (New York: Columbia University
Press, 2009).
Ishimure
Michiko, “Reborn from the Earth Scarred by Modernity:
Minamata Disease and the Miracle of the Human Desire to Live” (2008).
In The Asia-Pacific Journal: 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).
Edward Mack, Manufacturing Modern
Japanese Literature: Publishing, Prizes,
and the Ascription of Literary Value (Duke University Press, 2010). Journal
of Japanese Studies 38:1 (2012), 229-232.
Book review.
Karen Laura Thornber, Empire of Texts
in Motion: Chinese, Korean and Taiwanese
Transculturations of Japanese Literature (Harvard University Asia Center,
2009). Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 71:1 (2011), 148-155. Book review.
Natsume Sōseki, Kusamakura. City
Secret Books: The Essential Insider’s
Guide, Robet Kahn and Mark Strand, eds. (New York: Fang Duff Kahn, 2009), 192-194. Popular review article.
Ken K. Ito, An Age of Melodrama: Family,
Gender and Social Hierarchy in the Turn-of-the-Century Japanese Novel (Stanford
University Press, 2008). Monumenta Nipponica 64:1 (Spring 2009),
192-195. Book review.
Eve Zimmerman, Out of the
Alleyway: Nakagami Kenji and the Poetics
of Outcaste Fiction (Harvard University Asia Center, 2007). Monumenta Nipponica 63:2 (Autumn 2008),
442-445. Book review.
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.
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.
「国際化の中の藤村・欧米の場合」“Kokusaika no
naka no Tōson: Ōbei no baai”
(Tōson and internationalization:
the situation in the West), Shimazaki
Tōson kenkyū『島崎藤村研究』29 (2001),
40-48. Review article.
"Shimazaki
Tōson and the Ideologies of Nationalism:
Imagining Japan and the United States." Doctoral dissertation, Cornell University,
August 1996.
DISSERTATION ABSTRACT: This dissertation focuses on the novels of
Shimazaki Tōson (1872-1943), one of modern Japan's most celebrated
authors, as well as on works by three American writers: Upton Sinclair, Willa Cather, and John Dos
Passos. It examines how these texts
participate in the dissemination of ideological constructs that produce images
of a unified national community. The
methodology used derives from a critical engagement with the linguistic
theories of Mikhail Bakhtin, in particular his notion of the speech genre.
The first
chapter outlines Tōson's career and introduces the major theoretical
questions addressed in the dissertation:
nationalism and ideology. It also
discusses the rationale for examining Japanese and American texts within a
single framework. Chapter Two, "Embodying the Nation," compares
the description of human bodies in Hakai
(Broken Commandment, 1906) and
Sinclair's The Jungle (1906). It examines how both novels employ
ideological idioms from the discipline of hygiene, idioms that construct the
body as a nationalized and colonized entity.
Chapter Three,
"Gen(d)re Bending in the Fatherland," discusses Haru (Spring, 1907) and Shinsei (New Life, 1918-9), and Cather's O
Pioneers! (1913). It explores how
written texts produced by male and female characters in Haru and Shinsei are assigned to different speech
genres, a tendency that places three forms of identity (gender, nationality,
and authorship) in a relationship of mutual reinforcement. In contrast, Cather's novel describes texts
whose authorship cannot easily be assigned gender or nationality. The chapter also examines a 1937 series of
articles written by Hasegawa Komako, the model for the major female character
in Shinsei.
Chapter Four,
"The Times of Nations," explores Yoake
mae (Before the Dawn, 1929-35)
and Dos Passos' U.S.A. (1930-6),
focusing on the forms of temporality and spatiality that mark modern
nationalism. It analyzes the historical
narratives employed in several early critical essays on Yoake mae and explores the connections between these and the
version of national history found in U.S.A. The final chapter, "Asymmetrical
Conclusions," returns to Hakai
and The Jungle to reflect on the
methodologies used throughout the dissertation.
“Shimazaki Tōson’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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