David G. Goodman (February 12, 1946 – July 25, 2011) was an American academic, author, editor and

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Career

Goodman was a professor of Japanese literature at the

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at Urbana-Champaign. He translated works by

Sakae Kubo was a Japanese playwright and director. Kubo studied and translated German literature at Tokyo Imperial University and then soon he became the disciple of another famous playwright and theatre director, Kaoru Osanai. From his mentor, Kubo had ad ...

Hideo Oguma was a Japanese poet for the Proletarian literature movement and was noted for writing children's stories, comic books and literary criticism. A Hideo Oguma poetry prize is awarded for new poetry writers. Selected paintings File:OgumaHideo-193 ...

, and

Kunio Kishida Kunio Kishida (岸田國士, Kishida Kunio, 2 November 1890 – 5 March 1954) was a Japanese playwright, dramatist, novelist, lecturer, acting coach, theatre critic, translator, and proponent of Shingeki ("New Theatre"/”New Drama"). Kishida sp ...

Selected works

In an overview of writings by and about Goodman,

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lists roughly 15+ works in 40+ publications in 2 languages and 2500+ library holdings. :''This list is not finished; you can help Wikipedia by adding to it.'' * ''After apocalypse: four Japanese plays of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,'' 1986 * ''Land of volcanic ash: a play in 2 parts by Sakae Kubo,'' 1988 * ''Long, long autumn nights: selected poems of Oguma Hideo, 1901–1940,'' 1989 * ''Five plays by Kunio Kishida,'' 1989 * with Masanori Miyazawa: ''Jews in the Japanese mind: the history and uses of a cultural stereotype,'' 1995pbk expanded edition, 2000
* ''Angura: posters of the Japanese avant-garde,'' 1999 * ''The return of the gods: Japanese drama and culture in the 1960s,'' 2003

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Goodman, David 1946 births 2011 deaths American Japanologists American male non-fiction writers Historians of Japan Yale University alumni University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty Scholars of Japanese literature