Masao Miyoshi (三好将夫, Miyoshi Masao, 1928 – 1 October 2009[1]) was a scholar of literature and culture and Hajime Mori Endowed Chair in Japanese Language and Literature at the
University of California, San Diego.
Miyoshi's books include The Divided Self: A Perspective on the Literature of the Victorians (1969), Accomplices of Silence: The Modern Japanese Novel (1975), As We Saw Them: The First Japanese Embassy to the United States (1860) (1979), Off Center: Power and Culture Relations Between Japan and the United States (1991), and The University in 'Globalization': Culture, Economy, and Ecology (2003). He also edited and co-edited anthologies on globalization, post-modernism, and the future of area studies.[3]
The Divided Self: A Perspective on the Literature of the Victorians. New York: New York UP and London UP, 1969.
Accomplices of Silence: The Modern Japanese Novel. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975.
As We Saw Them: The First Japanese Embassy to the United States (1860). Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979. Second edition, New York: Kodansha International, 1994.
Postmodernism and Japan (co-edited with H. D. Harootunian). Durham/London: Duke UP, 1989.
Off Center: Power and Culture Relations Between Japan and the United States. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1991.
A special Japan issue, Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing (editor). Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1991.
Japan in the World (co-edited with H. D. Harootunian). Durham/London: Duke UP, 1993.
The Culture of Globalization (co-edited with Fredric Jameson). Durham/London: Duke UP, 1997.
Learning Places: The Afterlives of Area Studies (co-ed. with H.D. Harootunian). Duke UP, 2002.
Teiko no ba e [Sites of Resistance]: Interviews with Masao Miyoshi. (transcribed and translated into Japanese by Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto). Kyoto: Rakuhoku Shuppan, 2007.
Trespasses [Selected Writings by Miyoshi]. (ed. Eric Cazdyn with preface by Fredric Jameson). Durham: Duke University Press, 209, forthcoming.
"A Borderless World? From Colonialism to Transnationalism and the Decline of the Nation-State," Critical Inquiry, 19.4 (Summer 1993): 726–751.
"Sites of Resistance in the Global Economy," boundary 2, 22.1 (Spring 1995): 61–84.
"Radical Art at documenta X," New Left Review, 228 (March/April 1998): 151–161.
"'Globalization,' Culture and the University," Cultures of Globalization (co-edited with Fredric Jameson). Durham/London: Duke UP, 1998: 247–270.
"Japan Is Not Interesting," Re-Mapping Japanese Culture: Papers of the 10th Biennial Conference of the Japanese Studies Association of Australia. Monash Asia Institute, 2000: 11–25.
"Ivory Tower in Escrow," boundary 2 (Spring 2000): 8–50.
"Turn to the Planet: Literature, Diversity, and Totality," Comparative Literature (Fall 2001).
References
^"Miyoshi, Masao". Library of Congress Authorities. Retrieved 29 April 2012.