ISLANDS OF ENTANGLEMENT: READING A TRANSPACIFIC OKINAWA IN THE PHILIPPINES AND HAWAI'I

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dc.contributor.authorBuyco, Ryan
dc.contributor.chairSakai, Naoki
dc.contributor.committeeMemberCraib, Raymond B.
dc.contributor.committeeMemberTagliacozzo, Eric
dc.contributor.committeeMemberde Bary, Brett
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-15T16:51:59Z
dc.date.issued2019-08-30
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation project focuses on the small island archipelago of Okinawa in Southern Japan. Since the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Okinawans migrated and settled in disparate regions across the Pacific, in North and South America, Polynesia, Micronesia, and Southeast Asia, among others. Beginning in the 1980s, in Okinawa and in the diaspora, there was an increased interest in the history of migration from the Prefecture. This project examines select works of Okinawan literature of the 1990s in relation to the Philippines and Hawai‘i as two diasporic sites. This study focuses on the interconnectedness of these three island locales through the trope of entanglement to describe how Okinawan narratives intersect with discourses of US militarism and settler colonialism in the Pacific during the twentieth century and today. Foregrounding my position as a Filipino American reader—and using an interdisciplinary approach which includes the analysis of literary texts, oral history sources, and fieldwork experiences in the Philippines, Hawai‘i, and Okinawa—I explore the possibilities of reading Okinawan literature as a decolonial practice.
dc.description.embargo2025-08-29
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7298/9xae-8w57
dc.identifier.otherBuyco_cornellgrad_0058F_11647
dc.identifier.otherhttp://dissertations.umi.com/cornellgrad:11647
dc.identifier.otherbibid: 11050783
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1813/67796
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subjectHawaii
dc.subjectOkinawa
dc.subjectUS militarism
dc.subjectPhilippines
dc.subjectAsian studies
dc.subjectAsian American studies
dc.subjectSettler Colonialism
dc.subjectAsian literature
dc.subjectentanglement
dc.titleISLANDS OF ENTANGLEMENT: READING A TRANSPACIFIC OKINAWA IN THE PHILIPPINES AND HAWAI'I
dc.typedissertation or thesis
dcterms.licensehttps://hdl.handle.net/1813/59810
thesis.degree.disciplineAsian Literature, Religion and Culture
thesis.degree.grantorCornell University
thesis.degree.levelDoctor of Philosophy
thesis.degree.namePh.D., Asian Literature, Religion and Culture
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