Alegal Biopolitics and the Unintelligibility of Okinawan Life

• Main Author: Shimabuku, Annmaria M. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Fordham University Press 2019
• Subjects: Ethnic studies; Asian history; Colonialism & imperialism; Literary theory; Sociology; History; Asian Studies; Political Science; Language & Literature
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Okinawan life, at the crossroads of American militarism and Japanese capitalism, embodies a fundamental contradiction to the myth of the monoethnic state. Suspended in a state of exception, Okinawans have never been officially classified as colonial subjects of the Japanese empire or the United Stat...