Davinder L Bhowmik

Writing Okinawa

Narrative acts of identity and resistance

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Collector's edition
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9780415775564
• ISBN-10: 0415775566
• Artikelnr.: 25007521

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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