Modernity arrived in Japan, as elsewhere, through new forms of ownership. In A Fictional Commons, Michael K. Bourdaghs explores how the literary and theoretical works of Natsume Soseki (1867-1916), widely celebrated as Japan's greatest modern novelist, exploited the contradictio…
"In A Fictional Commons, Michael K. Bourdaghs explores the fiction and literary theory of Natsume Sōseki as a critical and creative response to new forms of property ownership in Japan. Reading Sōseki in relation to both theorists from his era (for example, William James) and fr…
"In A Fictional Commons, Michael K. Bourdaghs explores the fiction and literary theory of Natsume Sōseki as a critical and creative response to new forms of property ownership in Japan. Reading Sōseki in relation to both theorists from his era (for example, William James) and fr…
"Michael K. Bourdaghs presents a radical reframing of the works of Natsume Sōseki--widely considered to be Japan's greatest modern novelist--as critical and creative responses to the emergence of new forms of property ownership in nineteenth-century Japan."--
Each chapter in Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon examines a single genre through a particular theoretical lens: the relation of music to liberation; the influence of cultural mapping on musical appreciation; the role of translation in transmitting musical genres around the glob…
"From the beginning of the American occupation in 1945 to the post-bubble period of the early 1990s, popular music provided Japanese listeners with a much-needed release, channeling their desires, fears, and frustrations over an ever-shifting geopolitical reality into a pleasura…
