Kannani and Document of Flames: Two Japanese Colonial Novels
“The publication of these translations may well be remembered as an epoch-making event. Mark Driscoll has made a major contribution to our understanding of Japanese modernity in all of its complexity, of postcoloniality as a theoretical concept and political praxis, and of the politics of Asian studies as a discipline. Moreover, he has rescued a nearly forgotten figure whose work speaks a message that—as Driscoll demonstrates so lucidly—needs to be heard by English-speaking readers today.”—Michael K. Bourdaghs, author ofThe Dawn that Never Comes: Shimazaki Toson and Japanese Nationalism