edited by Michael Molasky and Steve Rabson University of Hawai’i Press, 2000. Modern Okinawa has been forged by a history of conquest and occupation by mainland Japan and the United States. Its sense of dual subjugation and the propensity of its writers to confront their own complicity with Japanese militarism imbues Okinawa’s literary tradition with [...]
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Okinawa: Two Postwar Novellas
Posted in Fiction, Japan, Okinawa, Translation, Uncategorized on November 30, 2010 |
by Oshiro Tatsuhiro and Higashi Mineo translated by Steve Rabson Institute of East Asian Studies, UCB, 1989. Although the novellas differ sharply in tone and form, both are first-person narratives of individual protagonists whose lives are profoundly affected by the U.S. occupation and military presence. The novellas are presented here in translation together with an introduction providing [...]
By Darcy Tamayose Cormorant Books, 2007 Odori is a novel that navigates through the glorious Ryukyuan Kingdom and the Golden Era of the Sho Dynasty, through bloody World War II Okinawa, and over parched prairies of Southern Alberta’s Rainmaker Hills, “all the while exposing human sorrows, indignities, idiosyncrasies, failed faiths, splintered spirits, and an island [...]
