Rethinking Postwar Okinawa - Beyond American Occupation

This collection provides a multidisciplinary study of postwar and contemporary Okinawa. The contributors analyze the unique social and cultural transformations that have occurred outside the context of American military control or US-Japan relations.

List of contents

Introduction: Rethinking Postwar Okinawa, Hiroko Matsuda and Pedro Iacobelli
Chapter 1: History as a Mirror of Self: A Note on Post-war Okinawan Historiography, Hidekazu Sensui
Chapter 2: Nursing the U.S. Occupation: Okinawan Public Health Nurses in U.S.-Occupied Okinawa, Asako Masubuchi
Chapter 3: The Occupying Other: Third-Country Nationals and the U.S. Bases in Okinawa, Johanna O. Zulueta
Chapter 4: Reversion-Era Proposals for Okinawan Regional Autonomy, Ryan Masaaki Yokota
Chapter 5: Beyond Minority History: Okinawa Korea People's Solidarity and Internationalization of the Okinawa Struggle, Shinnosuke Takahashi
Chapter 6: Fault Lines of Occupation, Limits of Hybridity: Race, Class and Transnationalism in Okinawa and Japan, Ayako Takamori
Chapter 7: Champur¿ Text: Decolonial Okinawan Writing, Ariko S. Ikehara
Chapter 8: The Black Pacific through Okinawan Eyes: Photographer Mao Ishikawa's "Hot Days in Camp Hansen!!" and "Life in Philly," Laura Kina

About the author

Edited by Pedro Iacobelli and Hiroko Matsuda - Contributions by Pedro Iacobelli; Ariko S. Ikehara; Laura Kina; Asako Masubuchi; Hiroko Matsuda; Hidekazu Sensui; Shinnosuke Takahashi; Ayako Takamori; Ryan Masaaki Yokota and Johanna O. Zulueta

Summary

This collection provides a multidisciplinary study of postwar and contemporary Okinawa. The contributors analyze the unique social and cultural transformations that have occurred outside the context of American military control or US-Japan relations.

Product details

• Authors: Pedro Matsuda Iacobelli
• Assisted by: Pedro Iacobelli (Editor), Pedro (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile Chile) Iacobelli (Editor), Iacobelli Pedro (Editor), Hiroko Matsuda (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2018
• EAN: 9781498533119
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-3311-9
• No. of pages: 212
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; USA, Japan, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, International Relations, Second World War, United States of America, USA, Land forces & warfare, Land forces and warfare