Southern Exposure: Modern Japanese Literature from Okinawa 9780824864408

Southern Exposure is the first anthology of Okinawan literature to appear in English translation, and it appears at a pr

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Southern Exposure: Modern Japanese Literature from Okinawa
 9780824864408

Table of contents :
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

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