基本説明
アメリカ、南米、南洋等、様々な地域に及んだ二十世紀の沖縄人の移住体験とアイデンティティの構築を一次資料と口承史から示す。
Contributors: Arakaki Makoto, Robert K. Arakaki, Hokama Shuzen, Edith M. Kanashiro, Ronald Y. Nakasone, Nomura Koya, Shirota Chika, Tomiyama Ichiro, Wesley Ueunten.
Full Description
The first Okinawan immigrants arrived in Honolulu in January 1900 to work as contract laborers on Hawai'i's sugar plantations. Over time Okinawans would continue migrating east to the continental U.S., Canada, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Bolivia, Mexico, Cuba, Paraguay, New Caledonia, and the islands of Micronesia. The essays in this volume commemorate these diasporic experiences within the geopolitical context of East Asia. Using primary sources and oral history, individual contributors examine how Okinawan identity was constructed in the various countries to which. Okinawans migrated, and how their experiences were shaped by the Japanese nation-building project and by globalization. Essays explore the return to Okinawan sovereignty, or what Nobel Laureate Oe Kenzaburo called an ""impossible possibility,"" and the role of the Okinawan labor diaspora in Japan's imperial expansion into the Philippines and Micronesia.
