David G. Goodman (February 12, 1946^[1] – July 25, 2011^[2]) was an American academic, author, editor and Japanologist.

Career

Goodman was a professor of Japanese literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.^[3] 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.^[4]

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• Concerned Theater Japan, 1969–1973^[5]
• 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, 1995^[6][7] pbk expanded edition, 2000
• Angura: posters of the Japanese avant-garde, 1999
• The return of the gods: Japanese drama and culture in the 1960s, 2003

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