Islands of Discontent Okinawan Responses to Japanese and American Power

by Hein, Laura; Selden, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780742518667
• ISBN10: 0742518663
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-04-09
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

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 w

Author Biography

Laura Hein is associate professor of history at Northwestern University Mark Selden is professor of sociology and history at Binghamton University and professorial associate in the East Asia Program at Cornell University

Table of Contents

Culture, Power, and Identity in Contemporary Okinawa	1	(38)
Laura Hein
Mark Selden
Part I. Making Sense of the Past
Wolves at the Back Door: Remembering the Kumejima Massacres	39	(26)
Matthew Allen
Waging Peace on Okinawa	65	(34)
Gerald Figal
Memories of Okinawa: Life and Times in the Greater Osaka Diaspora	99	(36)
Steve Rabson
The Rape of a Schoolgirl: Discourses of Power and Women's Lives in Okinawa	135	(26)
Linda Isako Angst
Part II. Contemporary Culture, Identity, Resistance
Medoruma Shun: The Writer as Public Intellectual in Okinawa Today	161	(31)
Michael Molasky
Uchina Pop: Place and Identity in Contemporary Okinawan Popular Music	192	(36)
James E. Roberson
Okinawan Identity and Resistance to Militarization and Maldevelopment	228	(15)
Asato Eiko
Future ``Assets,'' but at What Price? The Okinawa Initiative Debate	243	(30)
Julia Yonetani
From the National Gaze to Multiple Gazes: Representations of Okinawa in Recent Japanese Cinema	273	(35)
Aaron Gerow
Index	308	(13)
About the Contributors	321