Okinawan Literature

Hi everyone,

It's stress time again!

As I prepare for my mid-terms I've been re-digesting what I've read. These are some things that I've gathered:

1. "Local Color" is in Okinawan literature. But is it there to impress and engage mainland Japan or is it creativity that defines Okinawa and its people? Local color is effective in Okinawan literature as it paints grand ways of understanding.

2. Literature is a form of history and knowledge, we gain from literature in ways textbooks cannot. History is often written by the colonizer and literature is the emotion and heartache of histories, accurate in its own ways.

3. Comparing work from other programs on colonization and imperialsim.

I compare to: Cuban Counterpoint - Fernando Ortiz

Discourse on Colonialism - Aime Cesaire

Devil on the Cross - Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Green Cane, Juicy Flotsam - Ramon Grosfugel

In Another Place Not Here - Dionne Brand

In My Father's House - Anthony Appiah

The Repeating Island - Nicholas Guillen

The Underdogs - Juan Rulfo

4. Methods used throughout Okinawan literature such as overlapping images, major themes, magical realism, surrealism, etc. to convey thoughts, emotions, analytical thinking

5. Propaganda and outsider/insider depicitions of history and current regarding issues of Okinawa.

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