{"id":4054,"date":"2022-03-01T18:56:11","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T18:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/japan\/?page_id=4054"},"modified":"2022-04-04T17:10:36","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T17:10:36","slug":"presenter-ikue-kina","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/japan\/okinawa-reversion\/presenter-ikue-kina\/","title":{"rendered":"Ikue Kina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>University of the Ry\u016bky\u016bs<\/em><\/p>\n<h4><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4063\" src=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/japan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/03\/headshot-I.Kina_-251x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/japan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/03\/headshot-I.Kina_-251x300.jpg 251w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/japan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/03\/headshot-I.Kina_-768x918.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/japan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/03\/headshot-I.Kina_-857x1024.jpg 857w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/japan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/03\/headshot-I.Kina_-375x448.jpg 375w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/japan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/03\/headshot-I.Kina_-750x897.jpg 750w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/japan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/03\/headshot-I.Kina_.jpg 957w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>This Thin Edge of Barbwire: Okinawan Women\u2019s Struggles before and after Reversion<\/h4>\n<p>&#8220;This Thin Edge of Barbwire&#8221; is a phrase which comes from <em>Borderlands\/ La Frontera<\/em> (1987), the work written by a Chicana writer Gloria Anzald\u00faa, who compares her \u201chome\u201d on the U.S.-Mexican border to a \u201cthin edge of barbwire,\u201d where women\u2019s bodies and lives have constantly been threatened by intense violence. Okinawan women have also been exposed to multiple kinds of male violence followed by life in severe poverty, putting them in a situation similar to Anzald\u00faa&#8217;s &#8220;home&#8221; as a &#8220;borderland.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/kenkyushadb.lab.u-ryukyu.ac.jp\/html\/100000830_en.html\">Ikue Kina<\/a><\/strong> is a professor of American literature at the University of the Ryukyus. Her research interest includes the literature of indigenous North American, Chicana, and Asian American women and the stories written by Tami Sakiyama, an Okinawan woman novelist whose work Kina translated and published in <em>My Postwar Life: New Writings from Japan and Okinawa<\/em> (2012). 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