|
University of the Ryukyus Repository >
Educational research facilities >
International Institute for Okinawan Studies at the University of the Ryukyus >
IJOS : International journal of Okinawan studies >
Vol.3(2) (2012/12) >
| |
| Title | : | 故郷で客死すること : 『中屋幸吉遺稿集 名前よ立って歩け』論 |
| Title alternative | : | Death as a Foreigner in His Homeland : A Reading of Nakaya Kokichi's Posthumans Collection : Namae yo Tatte Aruke |
| Authors | : | 新城, 郁夫 |
| Authors alternative | : | Shinjo, Ikuo |
| Issue Date | : | 24-Dec-2012 |
| Abstract | : | To this day, there has not been a sustained critical study of Nakaya Kokichi, a writer whose work illustrates a singular unfolding of intellectual thoughts in Okinawa under the US military occupation. My paper sheds light upon the political potential of Nakaya’s thought through a close reading of his posthumous collection, Namae Yo Tatte Aruke (Let Your Name Stand Upright and Walk). In doing so, I pay particular attention to the three following aspects of his thought. First, Nakaya’s texts reveal the violent nature of “interpellation” that sustains the system of the US-Japan military alliance. Nakaya’s work exposes the ways in which such interpellation at once subjectivates those who live in Okinawa and, therefore, prohibits them from becoming a political subject. Second, Nakaya’s writings critique the politics of Okinawan nationalist identity and seek an alternative political future in the solidarity among the non-subjectivated bodies. Third, as Nakaya’s thought suggests a paradoxical possibility of kakushi or a death in a foreign land even in one’s own socalled “homeland,” it helps resituate Okinawa as an intersection of “refugees” who remain unable to belong to nation-states and of their “histories that open up laterally.” |
| Type Local | : | 雑誌掲載論文 |
| ISSN | : | 2185-4882 |
| Publisher | : | the International Institute for Okinawan Studies, University of the Ryukyus |
| URI | : | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12000/34165 |
| Citation | : | International journal of Okinawan studies Vol.3 no.2 p.23 -36 |
| Appears in Collections | : | Vol.3(2) (2012/12)
|
Files in This Item:
| File |
Description |
Size | Format |
|---|
| Vol3No2p23.pdf | | 816Kb | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
|
|
|
