David G. Goodman

David G. Goodman was an American academic, author, editor and Japanologist.

Career

Goodman was a professor of Japanese literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He translated works by Sakae Kubo, Hideo Oguma, and Kunio Kishida.

Selected works

In an overview of writings by and about Goodman, OCLC/WorldCat lists roughly 15+ works in 40+ publications in 2 languages and 2500+ library holdings. After apocalypse: four Japanese plays of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 1986 Land of volcanic ash: a play in 2 parts by Sakae Kubo, 1988Long, long autumn nights: selected poems of Oguma Hideo, 1901–1940, 1989Five plays by Kunio Kishida, 1989

with Masanori Miyazawa: Jews in the Japanese mind: the history and uses of a cultural stereotype, 1995 Angura: posters of the Japanese avant-garde, 1999The return of the gods: Japanese drama and culture in the 1960s, 2003