...Harry Harootunian The essay attempts to present and thus see the literary scholar, activist, and thinker Masao Miyoshi as we constantly saw him crossing the boundaries between the United States and Japan and eventually enlarging his vision to include the world at large. But the act of seeing...

...Chih-ming Wang In honor of the late Masao Miyoshi, whose work has opened a transpacific dimension in Asian American studies, this essay first explores the notion of asymmetry, which is seminal to his critical vision, to build an analytical framework for understanding and evaluating...

...Keijiro Suga This essay is conceived as a supplement to Masao Miyoshi’s only book of photography. Miyoshi was an avid traveler and photographer all his life. He called his practice “anti-photography” and left a book titled This Is Not Here (2009). His photographic images are interesting in many...

...Rob Wilson “Critique and Cosmos: After Masao Miyoshi” aims to activate some of the energies, tactics, critical forces, geopolitics, comparative poetics, and visions Masao Miyoshi carried out in his work from the 1970s into the present millennium: coming to terms with aftering this impact...

...Reginald Jackson This essay charts Masao Miyoshi’s shifting relation to the university as he both imagined it and intervened within it. I examine an incident in which Miyoshi heeded a graduate student’s request for help in contesting unfair treatment. This incident represents a crucible...

...Christine L. Marran This essay analyzes Masao Miyoshi’s “turn to the planet” in his later work. In articulating this turn, Miyoshi critiques the logics of difference that has dominated comparative literary and area studies and offers the concept of “planetarianism” as a way of articulating the need...

...Mary N. Layoun “‘To Relearn the Sense of the World’: A Call to Arms” rereads the work of Masao Miyoshi and the legacy of that work in attending to his imperative to “relearn the sense of the world” (or worlds) in which we reside and cohabit with others. The role in that relearning of higher...

...George Solt; Rob Wilson; Paul A. Bové Reading Trespasses reminds us of Masao Miyoshi’s talent for asking deceptively simple questions and leading us down a path that leaves us with a deeper sense of crisis but also with new possibilities for imagining how to reconnect the dots. Copyright © 2019...

...Masao Miyoshi Duke University Press 2007 Dossier on Korea Writing Across Boundaries and Transgression for Peace: Preface Masao Miyoshi First, a few facts. In September 2000, the Daesan Foundation in Seoul...

... of Masao Miyoshi .” In Trespasses: Selected Writings , by Miyoshi Masao , edited and with an introduction by Cazdyn Eric , xv – xxxiii . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Certeau Michel de . 1986 . “ History: Science and Fiction .” In Heterologies: Discourse on the Other...

...Masao Miyoshi Masao Miyoshi 2000 5983 b2 27:1 / sheet 13 of 237 Ivory Tower in Escrow Masao Miyoshi...

... in trying to use the Internet in his teaching, he is completing a book on nineteenth- century novels and twentieth-century films. Masao Miyoshi is Hajime Mori Professor of Literature at the University of California...

... .” In Haunted by Empire: Geographies of Intimacy in North American History , edited by Stoler Ann Laura , 191 – 212 . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Masao Miyoshi . 1991 . “ Off Center .” Power and Culture Relations between Japan and the United States . Cambridge, MA : Harvard...

..., and the Chevalier de la Légion d’Honeur (France). Besides novels and movie scripts, his most important works are Thirteen Days that Shook the Kremlin, The Revolt of the Mind (with Tamás Aczél), That Day in Budapest, and La Rupture Moscou-Pekin. Masao Miyoshi is Hajime Mori Professor Emeritus...

..., I received only two questions after my speech, both of which were, to my surprise, directed not at the film I wish to thank Harry Harootunian and Masao Miyoshi for their generous and helpful com- ments on a draft of this essay. All remaining errors are mine. boundary 2 34:1 (2007)  DOI...

..., these gender issues no longer arouse intense bit- terness. The sisterhood has won the fight. There may be internal power struggles and factions within the sisterhood, as Masao Miyoshi acknowl- edged in his essay “Turn to the Planet: Literature, Diversity, and Totality” five years ago. He agreed...

...- tant volume The Cultures of Globalization, edited by Fredric Jameson and Masao Miyoshi, the authors gathered here are more circumspect in their evaluation of what they see as capitalism’s Janus-faced nature.10 If noth- ing else, the authors insist on the importance of specificity in the critique...

...- ruary 10, 2012, httpwww.winnipegfreepress.com/fpnewstopstory/education-the-­ ­focus-­ as-­prime-­minister-­harper-­continues-­china-­visit-­139076984.html. 11. On the university turning into a global corporation, with emphasis on the University of California system, see Masao Miyoshi, “Ivory Tower...

..., Politics, and Society. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2010. McElheny, Josiah, ed. The Light Club: On Paul Scheerbart’s “On the Light Club of Batavia.” Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. Miyoshi, Masao. Trespasses: Selected Writings. Foreword by Fredric Jameson. Edited...

... but also with a means to carry through its own colonial projects internally and externally.29 29. I would like to recall here, by way of acknowledgment of an intellectual debt, an article by Masao Miyoshi, published a decade ago, that stands at the origins of my own think- ing on issues...