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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Laura Hein and Mark Selden Klappentext Examining contemporary Okinawan culture, politics, and historical memory, this book traces the dynamic reconstruction and reframing of Okinawan identity. The contributors explore the cultural and political expression that has flowered in the past decade with the vigorous growth of local museums and memorials and of the popularity of distinctive Okinawan music and literature, as well as of political movements targeting both U.S. military bases and Japanese national policy on ecological, developmental, and equity grounds. A key strategy has been the mobilization of historical memory, particularly recalling the violent subordination of Okinawan interests to those of the Japanese and American wartime and occupation governments. With its intertwining themes of memory, nationality, ethnicity, and cultural conflict in contemporary society, the book will be valuable reading for scholars and students across the social sciences and humanities. Zusammenfassung A study of contemporary Okinawan culture! politics and historical memory. It argues that the long Japanese tradition of defining Okinawa as a subordinate part of Japan means that all claims of Okinawan distinctiveness necessarily become part of the larger debate over contemporary identity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: Introduction: Culture, Power and Identity in Contemporary OkinawaPart I: Making Sense of the PastChapter 2: Wolves at the Back Door: Remembering the Kumejima MassacresChapter 3: Waging Peace on OkinawaChapter 4: Memories of Okinawa: Life and Times in the Greater Osaka DiasporaChapter 5: The Rape of a Schoolgirl, Discourses of Power and Women's Lives in OkinawaPart II: Contemporary Culture, Identity, ResistanceChapter 6: Medoruma Shun: The Writer as Public Intellectual in Okinawa TodayChapter 7: Uchin¿ Pop: Place and Identity in Contemporary Okinawan Popular MusicChapter 8: Okinawan Identity and Resistance to Militarization and MaldevelopmentChapter 9: Future Assets, But At What Price? The Okinawa Initiative DebateChapter 10: From the National Gaze to Multiple Gazes: Representations of Okinawa in Recent Japanese Cinema...
