Introduction: Our Sea of Islands, Intermingling with Japan

From Habele Institute

Naoto, Sudo (2010). "Introduction: Our Sea of Islands, Intermingling with Japan". Nanyo-orientalism: Japanese Representations of the Pacific. Amherst, NY: Cambria Press. pp. 1–22. ISBN 978-1-60497-731-8.

Abstract: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: "Our Sea of Islands": Intermingling with Japan -- Chapter 1: Japanese Colonial Representations of the "South Island": Textual Hybridity, Transracial Love Plots, and Postcolonial Consciousness -- Chapter 2: Nanyo-Orientalism in Postwar Japanese Texts on the Pacific: From Dankichi and Godzilla to Macias Gilly -- Chapter 3: A Postcolonial Dialogue: "Incomprehensible Nanyo" (Nakajima Atsushi) / "Faceless Japan" (Albert Wendt) -- Chapter 4: "Japanese Diaspora" and Hawaiian Literature: Japanese Imperialism and "Local" Japanese Postcolonial Consciousness -- Chapter 5: Colonial Mirror Images of Micronesia and Japan: Beyond the Tug of War between "Americanization" and "Japanization" -- Works Cited -- Index