<体験>と<経験>の語り : 沖縄戦のオーラル・ヒストリーから

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• In this article, the author focuses on the oral history of one aged senior citizen, who experienced the Battle of Okinawa during his childhood in World War II and examines how his experience is being handed down to the next generation. After the invasion of the U.S. military, he escaped with only his neck from Shuri, his hometown, and was detained on the hill of Mabuni by the U.S. Forces. Although he believed that the U.S.-British soldiers were devils, which were propagandized by the Imperial education to the masses, he realized that this was a false belief after the War. Simultaneously he learned that the U.S. Forces had been also doing "acts of cruelty that can be called insanity" through the various information collected after the War. Through such experience, his present view of the Battle of Okinawa has the following two special features. One is that all wars have the universal perspective of being "wars of insanity." The other is that "Ryukyu People (Ryukyuan)" had been alienated from receiving the propagandized Imperial education to the masses so they did not become Japanese citizens but maintained "normalcy" even during the abnormal state of war. In other words, the ethnic identity of "Ryukyu People (Ryukyuan)" when evaluated based on the historical consciousness is from the specific perspective that comes from this region. In this way, his experiential narration is rearranged so that it is easier to be handed down to the next generation.

• 2009-09-12

著者

• 桜井 厚

  立教大学

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