Southern exposure : modern Japanese literature from Okinawa / edited by Michael Molasky and Steve Rabson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Molasky, Michael S., 1956-

Rabson, Steve, 1943-

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Japanese literature--Japan--Okinawa-ken.

Japanese literature.

Japanese literature--20th century.

Japan--Okinawa-ken.

Physical Description:

xii, 362 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Honolulu, Hawaii : University of Hawai'i Press, 2000.

Summary:

Southern Exposure is the first anthology of Okinawan literature to appear in English translation. It includes a wide range of fiction as well as a sampling of poetry from the 1920s to the present day.

Contents:

A verse from "Translations of old Okinawan poems" (ca. 1922) / Serei Kunio

My last letter (1927) / Nakamura Kare

Entering the harbor of a southern island (1931) ; Dead body (1931) / Tsukayama Issui

A conversation (1395) ; Shell-shocked island (1964) / Yamanouchi Baku

Dream revelations (1994) / Takara Ben

Officer Ukuma (1922) / Ikemiyagi Sekihō

Memoirs of a declining Ryukyuan woman (1932) ; In a defense of 'Memoirs of a declining Ryukyuan woman' / Kushi Fusako

Mr. Saitō of heaven building (1938) / Yamanouchi Baku

Dark flowers (1955) / Kishaba Jun

Turtleback tombs (1966) / Ōshiro Tatsuhiro

Bones (1973) / Shima Tsuyoshi

The silver motorcycle (1977) / Nakahama Shin

Love letter from L.A. (1978) / Shimokawa Hiroshi

Love suicide at Kamaara (1984) / Yoshida Sueko

Will oʾ the wisp (1985) / Yamanoha Nobuko

Droplets (1997) / Medoruma Shun

Fortunes by the sea / Matayoshi Eiki.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0824821696

0824823001

OCLC:

43499449