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postgraduate thesis: Narrating singularity and regionalism: the representation of identity and resistance in Gima Hiroshi's woodblockprints
Title | Narrating singularity and regionalism: the representation of identity and resistance in Gima Hiroshi's woodblockprints |
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Issue Date | 2012 |
Publisher | The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) |
Citation | Lam, K. [林家欣]. (2012). Narrating singularity and regionalism : the representation of identity and resistance in Gima Hiroshi's woodblock prints. (Thesis). University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.5353/th_b4833467 |
Abstract | This dissertation gives an aesthetic analysis on the selected woodblock prints of the Okinawan artist Gima Hiroshi concurrent with an exploration of the identity politics of the Okinawans. Deconstructing the historical circumstances of the archipelago, the contradictions and predicaments that the islanders have been struggling with from the trade era and annexation period, to the wartime, the U.S. occupation and the reversion to the Japanese state are portrayed in the war prints. With the constitution of a multi-vocal identity, a regionalist identity has been articulated. This regionalism is manifested in the artist’s prints about traditions, customs and everyday life in terms of folk dance, drum playing, craftsmanship, festivities, daily activities, agriculture, residential space and the practices related to nature. Following a thorough discussion of the visual texts is the elucidation of essentialism in contemporary Okinawan studies that identity politics is itself delimiting and institutionalizing in representation. Essentialist representations reinforce the dichotomy of the self/other structure that they can be more detrimental than explicit performative discourses. As a concluding argument, this essay finishes with a proposed alternative to essentialist literature – visual representations. The interpretative potentiality and transformative powers of art serve as a stepping stone for the third party to experience the experience of the Other, which challenges the presumptions imposed by the self/other narrative. In this process, the marginalized can be made visible. |
Degree | Master of Arts |
Subject | Color prints, Japanese. Regionalism - Japan. Identity politics - Japan. |
Dept/Program | Literary and Cultural Studies |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/174259 |
HKU Library Item ID | b4833467 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Lam, Ka-yan | - |
dc.contributor.author | 林家欣 | - |
dc.date.issued | 2012 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Lam, K. [林家欣]. (2012). Narrating singularity and regionalism : the representation of identity and resistance in Gima Hiroshi's woodblock prints. (Thesis). University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.5353/th_b4833467 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/174259 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This dissertation gives an aesthetic analysis on the selected woodblock prints of the Okinawan artist Gima Hiroshi concurrent with an exploration of the identity politics of the Okinawans. Deconstructing the historical circumstances of the archipelago, the contradictions and predicaments that the islanders have been struggling with from the trade era and annexation period, to the wartime, the U.S. occupation and the reversion to the Japanese state are portrayed in the war prints. With the constitution of a multi-vocal identity, a regionalist identity has been articulated. This regionalism is manifested in the artist’s prints about traditions, customs and everyday life in terms of folk dance, drum playing, craftsmanship, festivities, daily activities, agriculture, residential space and the practices related to nature. Following a thorough discussion of the visual texts is the elucidation of essentialism in contemporary Okinawan studies that identity politics is itself delimiting and institutionalizing in representation. Essentialist representations reinforce the dichotomy of the self/other structure that they can be more detrimental than explicit performative discourses. As a concluding argument, this essay finishes with a proposed alternative to essentialist literature – visual representations. The interpretative potentiality and transformative powers of art serve as a stepping stone for the third party to experience the experience of the Other, which challenges the presumptions imposed by the self/other narrative. In this process, the marginalized can be made visible. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | HKU Theses Online (HKUTO) | - |
dc.rights | The author retains all proprietary rights, (such as patent rights) and the right to use in future works. | - |
dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | - |
dc.source.uri | http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B48334674 | - |
dc.subject.lcsh | Color prints, Japanese. | - |
dc.subject.lcsh | Regionalism - Japan. | - |
dc.subject.lcsh | Identity politics - Japan. | - |
dc.title | Narrating singularity and regionalism: the representation of identity and resistance in Gima Hiroshi's woodblockprints | - |
dc.type | PG_Thesis | - |
dc.identifier.hkul | b4833467 | - |
dc.description.thesisname | Master of Arts | - |
dc.description.thesislevel | Master | - |
dc.description.thesisdiscipline | Literary and Cultural Studies | - |
dc.description.nature | published_or_final_version | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.5353/th_b4833467 | - |
dc.date.hkucongregation | 2012 | - |
dc.identifier.mmsid | 991033834669703414 | - |