Writing Okinawa

Narrative acts of identity and resistance

By Davinder L Bhowmik

Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations 

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Table of Contents

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

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