Abstract This article reads contemporary Okinawan literature in relation to the increasingly urgent question of decolonisation, focusing on the writing of Sakiyama Tami. Sakiyama’s texts are radically playful, inciting the materiality of Japanese orthographies to create a literary language of difference. These strategies are both deconstructive and destructive in their efforts to express the multilingual reality of contemporary Okinawa against a history of war and oppression. However, Sakiyama’s writing shows how such strategies are necessary to give authentic voice to Okinawa’s experiences of violent military occupation and resist the appropriation of those narratives by national Japanese literary or linguistic standards. The urgency of this project emanates from the context of historical revisionism against which these texts were written, and a contemporary political climate in which Okinawans and their efforts to speak out against their ongoing colonisation have been being framed in terms of terrorism or erased. In Sakiyama’s texts, questions of language, memory, history and violence abound, and suggest links between her work and a wider project of decolonisation that has only just begun in East Asia. This article seeks to trace the strategies with which Sakiyama incites these questions through her 2002 essay Shimakotoba de kachāshī and a short story Night Flight on Pingihira Hill, first published in 2007. Since both texts remain untranslated into English, and even challenge the act of translation by celebrating linguistic distinctions, this essay seeks to forge a productive encounter to enliven both studies of Okinawan fiction and broader decolonising approaches to literature envisaged therein.

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煽动过去：冲绳文学与非殖民化转向

摘要 本文针对日益紧迫的非殖民化问题，阅读当代冲绳文学，重点关注咲山多美的作品。Sakiyama 的文本非常有趣，激发了日本正字法的物质性，创造了一种差异化的文学语言。这些策略在努力表达当代冲绳对战争和压迫历史的多语言现实方面既具有解构性又具有破坏性。然而，咲山的作品表明，这些策略对于真实地表达冲绳暴力军事占领的经历并抵制日本国家文学或语言标准对这些叙述的挪用是必要的。这个项目的紧迫性源于这些文本所针对的历史修正主义的背景，冲绳人和他们为反对正在进行的殖民化而发声的当代政治气候被恐怖主义陷害或被抹杀。在咲山的文本中，语言、记忆、历史和暴力问题比比皆是，并暗示了她的作品与刚刚在东亚开始的更广泛的非殖民化项目之间的联系。本文试图通过她 2002 年的文章 Shimakotoba de kachāshī 和 2007 年首次出版的短篇小说《平吉拉山的夜间飞行》追溯 Sakiyama 煽动这些问题的策略。通过庆祝语言差异，