{"product_id":"trespasses-9780822346371","title":"Trespasses","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTrespasses 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The great range and scope of the texts compiled in this anthology and the clarity and urgency of voice and vision which characterizes Miyoshi's critique will indubitably bring his ideas and concerns to a wider audience.” - Balthazar Becker, \u003ci\u003eSocial Text\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I mourn and celebrate a comrade. Here in luminous prose are the resonances: A double bind about double consciousness; a desire to keep the trivialized humanities committed to justice; a concern for the native language, for translation as active practice rather than passive convenience, for the burden of English, the political economy of globalization, and the transformation of knowledge into intellectual property; a critique of the university from within; ever mercurial, hard to situate. \u003ci\u003eIl miglior fabbro\u003c\/i\u003e.”—\u003cb\u003eGayatri Chakravorty Spivak\u003c\/b\u003e, University Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University\u003cbr\u003e“Radical art, the commercialization of the university, the nation-state, Japan and the West, cultural studies, subjectivity and pronouns, ecology, the state of things from Korea to the Mexican border, or from Cardinal Newman to \u003ci\u003edocumenta X\u003c\/i\u003e—such are the seemingly heterogeneous materials united by a commitment to an implacable unification of the aesthetic and the political, of attention to art and attention to globalization, which Miyoshi’s lifework holds out for us like an ideal.”—\u003cb\u003eFredric Jameson\u003c\/b\u003e, from the foreword\u003cbr\u003e“There is no denying that Masao Miyoshi’s \u003ci\u003eTrespasses\u003c\/i\u003e is a challenging yet deeply engaging collection of the writings from a major figure in Japanese studies (and one of its most outspoken critics), who could not be hemmed in by disciplinary fences. It proves that he still has much to teach those of us who walk in his footsteps.” -- Kyu Hyun Kim * Pacific Affairs *\u003cbr\u003e“The great range and scope of the texts complied in this anthology and the clarity and urgency of voice and vision which characterizes Miyoshi's critique will indubitably bring his ideas and concerns to a wider audience.” -- Bastian Balthazar Becker * Social Text *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword \/ Fredric Jameson xi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Trespasser: An Introduction to the Life and Work of Masao Miyoshi \/ Eric Cazdyn xv\u003cbr\u003e Literary Elaborations 1\u003cbr\u003e First-Person Pronouns in Japanese Diaries (1979) 49\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Tale of Genji\u003c\/i\u003e: Translation as Interpretation (1979) 77\u003cbr\u003e Who Decides, and Who Speaks?\u003ci\u003e Shutaisei\u003c\/i\u003e and the West in Postwar Japan (1991) 83\u003cbr\u003e The Invention of English Literature in Japan (1993) 111\u003cbr\u003e A Borderless World? From Colonialism to Transnationalism and the Decline of the Nation-State (1993) 127\u003cbr\u003e Outside Architecture (1996) 151\u003cbr\u003e \"Bunburying\" in the Japan Field: A Reply to Jeff Humphries (1997) 159\u003cbr\u003e Art without Money: \u003ci\u003edocumenta X\u003c\/i\u003e (1998) 175\u003cbr\u003e Japan Is Not Interesting (1999) 189\u003cbr\u003e Ivory Tower in Escrow: Ex Uno Plures (2000) 205\u003cbr\u003e Turn to the Planet: Literature and Diversity, Ecology and Totality (2001) 243\u003cbr\u003e A Conversation with Masao Miyoshi (2000) 263\u003cbr\u003e Notes 285\u003cbr\u003e Selected Works by Masao Miyoshi 331\u003cbr\u003e Index 333","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406058004823,"sku":"9780822346371","price":22.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822346371.jpg?v=1730494388","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/trespasses-9780822346371","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}