Southern Exposure,9780824823009

Southern Exposure

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ISBN13: 9780824823009
ISBN10: 0824823001
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-10-01
Publisher(s): UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII PRESS
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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.

Table of Contents

Preface xi
Introduction 1(38)
Poetry
A verse from Translations of Old Okinawan Poems (ca. 1922)
39(2)
Serei Kunio
My Last Letter (1927)
41(2)
Nakamura Kare
Entering the Harbor of a Southern Island (1931)
43(1)
Dead Body (1931)
44(2)
Tsukayama Issui
Reminiscences from The Days of My Youth (1963)
46(1)
A Conversation (1935)
47(2)
Shell-shocked Island (1964)
49(2)
Yamanokuchi Baku
Dream Revelations (1984)
51(8)
Takara Ben
Fiction
Officer Ukuma (1922)
59(14)
Ikemiyagi Sekiho
Memoirs of a Declining Ryukyuan Woman (1932)
73(8)
In Defense of ``Memoirs of a Declining Ryukyuan Woman''
81(4)
Kushi Fusako
``Mr. Saito of Heaven Building (1938)
85(13)
Yamanokuchi Baku
Dark Flowers (1955)
98(15)
Kishaba Jun
Turtleback Tombs (1966)
113(43)
Oshiro Tatsuhiro
Bones (1973)
156(16)
Shima Tsuyoshi
The Silver Motorcycle (1977)
172(20)
Nakahara Shin
Love Letter from L.A. (1978)
192(22)
Shimokawa Hiroshi
Love Suicide at Kamaara (1984)
214(21)
Yoshida Sueko
Will o' the Wisp (1985)
235(20)
Yamanoha Nobuko
Droplets (1997)
255(32)
Medoruma Shun
Fortunes by the Sea (1998)
287(72)
Matayoshi Eiki
Translators 359(2)
Sources for Original Texts 361

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