Land of Volcanic Ash

David Goodman (1946-2011) is the translator of After Apocalypse: Four Japanese Plays of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, editor of Five Plays by Kishida Kunio; and author of Japanese Drama and Culture in the 1960s. He was Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Land of Volcanic Ash makes a major contribution to our understanding of the nature and history of shingeki, its practitioners, major works and significance as an intellectual phenomenon.(Journal of Association of Teachers of Japanese) Kubo Sakae is among the most important modern Japanese playwrights, and Goodman has made him an open door for Western readers.(Journal of Asian Studies)