Dancing with the Dead

Memory, Performance and Everyday Life in Postwar Okinawa

Szerző: Christopher Nelson

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Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: Duke University Press

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Challenging conventional understandings of time and memory, Christopher T. Nelson examines how conte...

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Szerző

Christopher Nelson

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

2008

oldal

288

EAN

9780822343714

Enbook ID

04938874

Kiadó

Duke University Press

Súly

442

Méretek

154 x 227 x 20

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Challenging conventional understandings of time and memory, Christopher T. Nelson examines how contemporary Okinawans have contested, appropriated, and transformed the burdens and possibilities of the past. Nelson explores the work of a circle of Okinawan storytellers, ethnographers, musicians, and dancers deeply engaged with the legacies of a brutal Japanese colonial era, the almost unimaginable devastation of the Pacific War, and a long American military occupation that still casts its shadow over the islands. The ethnographic research that Nelson conducted in Okinawa in the late 1990s - and his broader effort to understand Okinawans' critical and creative struggles - was inspired by his first visit to the islands in 1985 as a lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. Nelson analyzes the practices of specific performers, showing how memories are recalled, bodies remade, and actions rethought as Okinawans work through the fragments of the past in order to reconstruct the fabric of everyday life. Artists such as the popular Okinawan actor and storyteller Fujiki Hayato weave together genres including Japanese stand-up comedy, Okinawan celebratory rituals, and ethnographic studies of war memory, encouraging their audiences to imagine other ways to live the modern world. Nelson looks at the efforts of performers and activists to wrest the Okinawan past from romantic representations of idyllic rural life in the Japanese media and reactionary appropriations of traditional values by conservative politicians. In his consideration of eisa, the traditional dance for the dead, he finds a practice that reaches beyond the expected boundaries of mourning and commemoration, as the living and the dead come together to create a moment in which a new world might be built from the ruins of the old.

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