Challenging conventional understandings of time and memory, Christopher T. Nelson examines how contemporary Okinawans have contested, appropriated, and transformed the burdens and possibilities of the past. Nelson explores the work of a circle of Okinawan storytellers, ethnographers, musicians, and dancers deeply engaged with the legacies of a brutal Japanese colonial era, the almost unimaginable devastation of the Pacific War, and a long American military occupation that still casts its shadow over the islands. The ethnographic research that Nelson conducted in Okinawa in the late 1990s and...

Challenging conventional understandings of time and memory, Christopher T. Nelson examines how contemporary Okinawans have contested, appropriated, and transformed the burdens and possibilities of the past. Nelson explores the work of a circle of Okinawan storytellers, ethnographers, musicians, and dancers deeply engaged with the legacies of a brutal Japanese colonial era, the almost unimaginable devastation of the Pacific War, and a long American military occupation that still casts its shadow over the islands. The ethnographic research that Nelson conducted in Okinawa in the late 1990s and...

When a half-human, half-demon is forced into a contract with an amateur demon hunter, he finds her goal of revenge is the least of his problems. Isaiah Bright's contract places him at the center of a conspiracy to destroy the Gates of Purgatory - a conspiracy that may end the uneasy peace between the Infernal Host and Angelic Choir. Is the power of a halfblood all that stands in the way of another Celestial War?

After the Gates of Purgatory opened, the halfblood demon Isaiah Bright thought his days of excitement and adventure were over. But when the first Horseman of the Apocalypse appears before him, his mage partner Tink, and the angel Caleb DeMarco, his adventure is just beginning. Once again, the fragile peace is threatened, but this time, Isaiah isn't the one to stand in the way of the war. He's the one who starts it.