此篇論文並讀兩個非虛構文本與那原惠的《到美麗島：沖繩、台灣我的家族物語》和黃胤毓編導的《海的彼端》的家族歷史再現，試圖思考沖繩和台灣的歷史連結以及如何從相似的殖民/帝國歷史過程找到互相參照的可能，更擴大討論超越歷史分期的跨太平洋地區的地緣政治。主要對話台灣日治時期研究的去殖民、國族主義問題。藉著指出日殖台灣的沖繩移民和石垣島上的台灣移民在移動過程之中的現代性經驗和其現代主體形成，歷史化分析現代性在帝國中心和殖民地之間的多方向傳播以及移民與不同國族/種族之間的互相觀看和誤視，拆解現代性和殖民、種族、、性/別、階級的關係。並且論證日本殖民和美國冷戰的延續性如何作用於東亞地區，同時在當代沖繩和台灣複製殖民/帝國的種族邏輯而產生民族國家框架下的現代性想像矛盾。

This thesis mainly juxtaposes the familial historical representation of the two nonfictional texts—To Formosa: Okinawa, Taiwan－My Family Story written by Yonahara Kei and After Spring, the Tamaki Family directed by Huang Yinyu to tentatively contemplate the historical connection between Okinawa and Taiwan and how the similar colonial/imperial historical formation makes possible the interreference of the two islands, and to further expand the discussion by considering the transpacific geopolitics across the Second World War to nowadays. I problematize the decolonial and nationalist thinking of the academic research on Japanese colonialism in Taiwan in the process of reading these two historical narratives. Through indicating the modern experiences and the modern subjectivities of the Okinawan migrants in colonial Taiwan and the Taiwanese migrants in Ishigaki island, I historically analyze the multidirectional routes of modern dissemination among the imperial metropolitan and the colonies and the mutual inspection and misconception of the migrants and other ethnicities/races to entangle the complicated relation between modernity and colonialism, race, gender, and class. I argue how the continuity of Japanese colonialism and U.S. Cold War implicated in East Asia duplicates the colonial/imperial racial logic in the present moment of Okinawa and Taiwan and engenders the contradictions of modern imagination in the framework of nation-states.

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