| Chapter 1: | Japanese Colonial Representations of the “South Island”: Textual Hybridity, Transracial Love Plots, and Postcolonial Consciousness |
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Chapter 1
Japanese Colonial
Representations
of the “South Island”
Textual Hybridity,
Transracial Love Plots,
and Postcolonial Consciousness1
The “South Island” in Japanese Culture
For the Japanese, the south island has been a place to project their colonial anxiety and desires—a space secluded from political strife, civilization, and history. The comic story “Boken Dankichi” (“Dankichi the adventurous”) is a case-in-point of such representations. The author, Shimada Keizo, depicts in