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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
Hiroko Matsuda is associate professor in the Department of Contemporary Social Studies at Kobe Gakuin University.
Pedro Iacobelli is assistant professor in the Institute of History at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.
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.
