Okinawa
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Date of Publication: 22 August 2023
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Product details:
ISBN13: | 9781683961185 |
ISBN10: | 1683961188 |
Binding: | Paperback |
No. of pages: | 544 pages |
Size: | 188x134 mm |
Language: | English |
Illustrations: | 544 |
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Short description:
This heartbreaking manga, by an award-winning cartoonist, examines the history of Okinawa and its military occupation.
Long description:
Okinawa brings together two collections of intertwined stories by the island's pre-eminent mangaka, Susumu Higa, which reflect on this difficult history and pull together traditional Okinawan spirituality, the modern-day realities of the continuing US military occupation, and the senselessness of the War. The first collection, Sword of Sand, is a ground level, unflinching look at the horrors of the Battle of Okinawa. Higa then turns an observant eye to the present-day in Mabui (Okinawan for 'spirit'), where he explores how the American occupation has irreversibly changed the island prefecture, through the lens of the archipelago's indigenous spirituality and the central character of the yuta priestess. Okinawa is a harrowing document of war, but it is also a work which addresses the dreams and the needs of a people as they go forward into an uncertain future, making it essential reading for anyone interested in World War II and its effects on our lives today, as well as anyone with an