Studies Related to the Institutional Multidimensionality and Cultural Particularity of Contemporary Okinawan Literature in the context of Okinawa-Japan relations

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In these papers, we make institutional and representational analysis of contemporary Okinawan literature.Project Head Investigator Kiyoshi Matushima 's research focuses on answering the question : What is the particularity of Okinawa in literature? Through the analysis of Okinawan-born poet Yamaguchi Baku, who was active in Tokyo, he attempts to reveal "the Okinawan elements in the deep structure of the consciousness."Project Investigator Keiko Vonaha examines the representation of women in Postwar Okinawan literature. To be more precise, she explores fictional works from the perspectives of postwar Okinawan female identity and women under occupation and in the military base towns and probes the reality of marginalized Okinawan women.Ryoko Shiotsuki, another Project Investigator, studies on the relation between shamanism and literature in Okinawa from the view point of anthropology. She scrutinizes "the literature of Noro representative of tradition and Yuta representative of the present day", and investigates the "re-magicalization of the world" that occurred in contemporary society.