Writing Okinawa: Narrative Acts of Identity and Resistance

ISBN-13: 9780415542586 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 234 str.

Davinder L. Bhowmik

Opis

This work traces the development of Okinawan literature over the tumultuous 20th century, during which the island experienced imperial subjectification, wartime annihilation, a protracted American occupation, and reversion to Japan.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. The Color Orange: Yamagusuku Seichu’s “Mandarin Oranges” and the Blossoming of Okinawan Fiction  2. Subaltern Identity in Taisho Japan  3. Marching Forward, Glancing Backward: Language and Nostalgia in Prewar Japan  4. Oshiro Tatsuhiro and Constructions of a Mythic Okinawa  5. Postreversion Fiction and Medoruma Shun  6. Darkness Visible in Sakiyama Tami’s Island Stories.  Conclusion 

O autorze

Davinder L. Bhowmik is Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature at the University of Washington, USA.