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Hosea Hirata |
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Professor, Director of the Japanese Program
Chair of the Department of German, Russian, & Asian Languages and Literatures
Director of the Film Studies Minor in Communication & Media Studies
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| Departmental Affiliation: |
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German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature Department
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Ph.D. University of British Columbia; MFA, University of British Columbia; Creative Writing (1981); B.A., McGill University; Major, English Literature (1979) |
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hosea.hirata@tufts.edu
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http://ase.tufts.edu/grall
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Books
The Poetry
and Poetics of Nishiwaki Junzaburo: Modernism in Translation.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993
Discourses of Seduction: History,
Evil, Desire, and Modern Japanese Literature. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005.
Journal Articles
"Created hibakusha poet Araki Yasusada: Does poetry require truth?" in
Plagiarism, Imitation, Originality: Questioning the Imagination of Japanese Literature. Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Japanese Literature, Nov. 2003 (Tokyo: National Institute of Japanese Literature, 2004), 155-168.
"Dear Yasusada-san," Also, With My Throat, I Shall Swallow Ten Thousand Swords:
Araki Yasusada’s Letters in English, by Tosa Motokiyu, eds. Kent Johnson and Javier Alvarez
(Cumberland, RI: Combo Books, 2005), 50 – 53.
"Nostalgia for the real: The poetic discourse surrounding the Araki Yasusada hoax,"
Modern Japanese Literature (Nihon Kindai Bungaku) no.70 (May 15, 2004): 187-196.
"The poetry of Nishiwaki Junzaburo and translation." Gengo bunka 19, (March 2003), 79-87.
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