Foreword / Fredric Jameson  xi

Introduction. Trespasser: An Introduction to the Life and Work of Masao Miyoshi / Eric Cazdyn  xv

Literary Elaborations  1

First-Person Pronouns in Japanese Diaries (1979)  49

The Tale of Genji: Translation as Interpretation (1979)  77

Who Decides, and Who Speaks? Shutaisei and the West in Postwar Japan (1991)  83

The Invention of English Literature in Japan (1993)  111

A Borderless World? From Colonialism to Transnationalism and the Decline of the Nation-State (1993)  127

Outside Architecture (1996)  151

"Bunburying" in the Japan Field: A Reply to Jeff Humphries (1997)  159

Art without Money: documenta X (1998)  175

Japan Is Not Interesting (1999)  189

Ivory Tower in Escrow: Ex Uno Plures (2000)  205

Turn to the Planet: Literature and Diversity, Ecology and Totality (2001)  243

A Conversation with Masao Miyoshi (2000)  263

Notes  285

Selected Works by Masao Miyoshi  331

Index  333

“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

“There is much food for thought here and Miyoshi, always searching and provocative, asks the right questions.”—David Burleigh, Japan Times

“[T]here is no denying that Masao Miyoshi’s Trespasses 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

“Trespasses presents a most valuable selection of critical essays from a highly significant literary critic and public intellectual. . . . This collection gives us a fine sense of his range and his critical method. That he eschewed strict disciplinary boundaries and conventions was shaped by his life, his personal style, and his politics. These essays trace his intellectual trajectories across and between national cultures, guided by an unwavering attention to historical location and purpose.”—David Palumbo-Liu, Criticism

“Miyoshi’s critiques of the university, global corporatism and environmental degradation resonate strongly with recent experience everywhere. This volume enables us to see Miyoshi not just as a fresh voice and a challenging, sometimes irritating, critic of Japanese studies, but as the major intellectual critic that he was.”—Alison Tokita, Asian Studies Review

“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

“There is much food for thought here and Miyoshi, always searching and provocative, asks the right questions.”—David Burleigh, Japan Times

“[T]here is no denying that Masao Miyoshi’s Trespasses 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

“Trespasses presents a most valuable selection of critical essays from a highly significant literary critic and public intellectual. . . . This collection gives us a fine sense of his range and his critical method. That he eschewed strict disciplinary boundaries and conventions was shaped by his life, his personal style, and his politics. These essays trace his intellectual trajectories across and between national cultures, guided by an unwavering attention to historical location and purpose.”—David Palumbo-Liu, Criticism

“Miyoshi’s critiques of the university, global corporatism and environmental degradation resonate strongly with recent experience everywhere. This volume enables us to see Miyoshi not just as a fresh voice and a challenging, sometimes irritating, critic of Japanese studies, but as the major intellectual critic that he was.”—Alison Tokita, Asian Studies Review

“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 documenta X—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.”—Fredric Jameson, from the foreword

“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. Il miglior fabbro.”—Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University

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