Southern Exposure : : Modern Japanese Literature from Okinawa / / ed. by Steve Rabson, Michael Molasky.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Baku, Yamanokuchi,; Ben, Takara,; Eiki, Matayoshi,; Fusako, Kushi,; Hiroshi, Shimokawa,; Issui, Tsukayama,; Jun, Kishaba,; Kare, Nakamura,; Kunio, Serei,; Molasky, Michael,; Nobuko, Yamanoha,; Rabson, Steve,; Sekiho, Ikemiyagi,; Shin, Nakahara,; Shun, Medoruma,; Sueko, Yoshida,; Tatsuhiro, Õshiro,; Tsuyoshi, Shima,
• HerausgeberIn: Molasky, Michael,; Rabson, Steve,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2000]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (376 p.)

Southern Exposure is the first anthology of Okinawan literature to appear in English translation, and it appears at a propitious time. Although Okinawa Prefecture comprises only one percent of Japan's population, its writers have been winning a disproportionate number of literary awards in rece...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• Poetry
• A Verse from "Translations of Old Okinawan Poems"
• My Last Letter
• Entering the Harbor of a Southern Island
• Dead Body
• From The Days of My Youth
• A Conversation
• Shell-shocked Island
• Dream Revelations
• Fiction
• Officer Ukuma
• Memoirs of a Declining Ryukyuan Woman
• In Defense of "Memoirs of a Declining Ryukyuan Woman"
• Mr. Saito- of Heaven Building
• Dark Flowers
• Turtleback Tombs
• Bones
• The Silver Motorcycle
• Love Letter from L.A.
• Love Suicide at Kamaara
• Will o' the Wisp
• Droplets
• Fortunes by the Sea
• Translators
• Sources for Original Texts