Post-war Okinawa Literature and East Asia ：The Impulse toward Anti-Violence and the Sensitivity to the Voices of Minorities

SON, Jiyoun

doi:2020.10.1.178

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Border Crossings: The Journal of Japanese-Language Literature Studies 2020;10(1): 178-184.
doi: https://doi.org/10.22628/bcjjl.2020.10.1.178

Post-war Okinawa Literature and East Asia ：The Impulse toward Anti-Violence and the Sensitivity to the Voices of Minorities

Jiyoun SON

Associate Professor, KyungHee University Department of Japanese and Director of Global Ryukyu Okinawa Institute

戦後沖縄文学と東アジア ―― 反暴力の感受性とマイノリティの声

孫知延

慶熙大日本語学科副教授。グローバル琉球沖縄研究所長

Correspondence Jiyoun SON ,Email: sonson@khu.ac.kr

Published online: 30 June 2020.

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ABSTRACT

This article aims to identify a way for scholars in the field of Okinawa studies working in Korea and Japan to share their research results and to expand Okinawa research further afield in East Asia through future exchanges and collaboration . To this end, this paper will firstly introduce a research project that is being carried out in Korea on the theme of . This is a general joint research project which received support from the National Research Foundation of Korea in July 2019, and which is being carried out over the course of two years, from 2019 to 2021. The research team is composed of Korean and Japanese Literature majors, and the scope of the research encompasses research results related to Okinawa. The aim of this project is to bring into clearer view the circumstances of the entirety of East Asia, which was in the midst of post-war imperialist violence, from Okinawa and Korea (Jeju 4·3 Literature) to Taiwan, Vietnam and the South Sea Islands, with an additional focus on the situation of the Korean-Japanese community in Japan.

Keywords: Post-war Okinawa Literature, East Asia, Impulse toward Anti-violence, Voices of Minorities

キ―ワ―ド: 戦後沖縄文学, 東アジア, 反暴力の感受性, マイノリティの声