2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Studies Related to the Institutional Multidimensionality and Cultural Particularity of Contemporary Okinawan Literature in the context of Okinawa-Japan relations
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15530344
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Sociology
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| Research Institution | Meiji Gakuin University |
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Principal Investigator |
MATSUSHIMA Kiyoshi Meiji Gakuin University, socioligy, professor, 社会学部, 教授 (10062176)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
YONAHA Keiko Toyo Eiwa University, international sociology, professor, 国際社会学部, 教授 (00220757)
SHIOTSUKI Ryoko Nihonbashi Gakkan University, humanities and business administration, assistant professor, 人文経営学部, 助教授 (90297979)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2003 – 2005
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| Keywords | Okinawan literature / particularity of Okinawa / representation of women / institutional analysis / shamanism / re-magicalization / representation of Okinawa / 貴種流離譚 |
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| Research Abstract |
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.
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