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HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
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Ryukyuan literature -- History and criticism.
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Living spirit : literature and resurgence in Okinawa / Frank Stewart, editor ; Katsunori Yamazato, guest editor.
Honolulu, Hawai'i : University of Hawai'I Press, 2011.
Subjects
Ryukyuan literature -- History and criticism.
ISBN:
0824836170
9780824836177 (pbk.)
Series:
Mānoa (Honolulu, Hawaii : 1989) ; 23:1.
Description:
xiii, 282 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Contents:
Essay: Maternal deities and the ancestry of humanity / Takara Ben. Possessed by love, thwarted by the bell: an overview / Kathy Foley and Nobuko Miyama Ochner. A living legacy / Ōshiro Sadatoshi. Images of the sacred / Frank Stewart and Katsunori Yamazato -- Fiction: Round-trip over the ocean / Sakiyama Tami. The dog snatcher / Nakawaka Naoko. Mabuigumi / Medoruma Shun. Riding a bus in a castle town / Ōshiro tatsuhiro. The wild boar that George gunned down / Matayoshi Eiki. The paper plane at the Empire State Building / Nagadō Eikichi. -- Poetry: Three poems / Yamanoguchi Baku. Hawks / Kawamitsu Shinichi. Okinawan shaman songs / Christopher Drake. Nothing can compare: Okinawan folk songs / Wesley Iwao Ueunten. Ryūka: Okinawan lyric poetry / traditional. The love of the red soil / Yonaha Mikio. Three poems / Makiminato Tokuzō. Two poems / Takara Ben -- Drama: Gods beyond the sea / Ōshiro Tatsuhiro. Possessed by love, thwarted by the bell / Tamagusuku Chōkun. The cocktail party / Ōshiro Tatsuhiro.
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This book presents extraordinary writing from Japan's southernmost prefecture--ancient lyrics to contemporary fiction, drama and poetry--most never before translated into English and several essays on Okinawan literature.
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