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Re-Orienting Okinawa in Post-War Japan

Panel: 
Gloomy Malaise? I: Re-evaluating Nostalgia and Nation in Literature and Cultural Studies
Abstract: 

Okinawa’s relationship within the Japanese imagination has vacillated between colony and romanticized remnant of “pure” Japanese identity. This paper will explore the work of two photographers who chased the notion of “Japaneseness” in this former colony.

Presenter Information
First Name: 
Thomas
Last Name: 
O'Leary
Institution: 
Independent Scholar