Limits of Okinawa

Matsumura Wendy Matsumura

Description

Since its incorporation into the Japanese nation-state in 1879, Okinawa has been seen by both Okinawans and Japanese as an exotic "South," both spatially and temporally distinct from modern Japan. In The Limits of Okinawa, Wendy Matsumura traces the emergence of this sense of Okinawan difference, showing how local and mainland capitalists, intellectuals, and politicians attempted to resolve clashes with labor by appealing to the idea of a unified Okinawan community. Their numerous confrontations with small producers and cultivators who refused to be exploited for the sake of this ideal produced and reproduced "Okinawa" as an organic, transhistorical entity. Informed by recent Marxist attempts to expand the understanding of the capitalist mode of production to include the production of subjectivity, Matsumura provides a new understanding of Okinawa's place in Japanese and world history, and it establishes a new locus for considering the relationships between empire, capital, nation, and identity.

Sujets

• Histoire
• Cultural studies
• Political economy
• History of Asia
• Japan

Informations

• Publié par: Duke University Press
• Date de parution: 26 avril 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780822376040
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

THE LIMITS OF OKINAWA

asiapacific: culture, politics, and society Editors: Rey Chow, Michael Dutton, H. D. Harootunian, and Rosalind C. Morris

The Lîmîts of Okînawa

Japanese Capitalism, Living Labor, and Theorizations o Community

– — –

WENDY MATSUMURA

duke university press Durham and London 

©  Duke Unîversîty Press A rîghts reserved Prînted în the Unîted States o Amerîca on acîd-ree paper∞ Typeset în Whîtman by Westchester Pubîshîng Servîces

Lîbrary o Congress Cataogîng-în-Pubîcatîon Data Matsumura, Wendy, – The îmîts o Okînawa : Japanese capîtaîsm, îvîng abor, and theorîzatîons o communîty / Wendy Matsumura. pages cm — (Asîa-Pacîfic: cuture, poîtîcs, and socîety) Incudes bîbîographîca reerences and îndex. isbn ---- (hardcover : ak. paper) isbn ---- (pbk. : ak. paper) isbn ---- (e-book) . Okînawa-ken (Japan)—Economîc condîtîons. I. Tîte. II. Serîes: Asîa-Pacîfic. hc . o4m   .'—dc 

Cover art: Yukînorî Yanagî,Banzai Corner, . Pastîc toys (approxîmatey  pîeces) and mîrror, ×× cm. © Yukînorî Yanagî.

for my parents, eiko and richard matsumura

– — –

c o n t e n t s

– — –

illustrationsîx

acknowledgmentsxî

introduction 1

chapter one The Bîrth o Okînawa Preecture and the Creatîon o Dîference 

chapter two The Mîyako Isand Peasantry Movement as an Event 

chapter three Reormîng Od Customs, Transormîng Women’s Work 

chapter four The Impossîbîîty o Pantatîon Sugar în Okînawa 

chapter five Uneven Deveopment and the Rejectîon o Economîc Natîonaîsm în “Sago Pam He” Okînawa 

conclusion Lîvîng Labor and the Lîmîts o Okînawan Communîty 

notes 189

 bibliography 247

 index 265

i l l u s t r a t i o n s

– — –

.. Entrance gate, Shurî, when Perry arrîved.  .. Mîyako Isand, Japanese Empîre,  .. Seventh Kyushu-Okînawa  Preectures Mutua Promotîon Aîance (),  .. Map o Japan and Loo Choo,  .. The productîon o sweet potato starch,  .. Surveys durîng the and reorganîzatîon,  .. Tatoo marks on the hands o a Loo Chooan women,  .. Naha coth market,  .. Femae weaver,  .. Nîshîhara sugar actory,  .. Kadena sugar actory,  .. Yonabaru statîon and empoyees,  .. Loadîng o brown sugar barres,  .. Takamîne Vîage sugar actory,  .. Sugar cane market,  .. Sugar Mî în Loo Chooan Vîage,  .. Yanbaru boat,  .. A home în Yanbaru,  .. Yaeyama’s bonîto actory,  .. The maîn road în Nago, 