Shadow Traces: Seeing Japanese/American and Ainu Women in Photographic Archives - Couverture souple

Creef, Elena Tajima

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0252086473 ISBN 13 : 9780252086472

Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2022

Synopsis

Images of Japanese and Japanese American women can teach us what it meant to be visible at specific moments in history. Elena Tajima Creef employs an Asian American feminist vantage point to examine ways of looking at indigenous Japanese Ainu women taking part in the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition; Japanese immigrant picture brides of the early twentieth century; interned Nisei women in World War II camps; and Japanese war brides who immigrated to the United States in the 1950s. Creef illustrates how an against-the-grain viewing of these images and other archival materials offers textual traces that invite us to reconsider the visual history of these women and other distinct historical groups. As she shows, using an archival collection’s range as a lens and frame helps us discover new intersections between race, class, gender, history, and photography.

Innovative and engaging, Shadow Traces illuminates how photographs shape the history of marginalized people and outlines a method for using such materials in interdisciplinary research.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Elena Tajima Creef is a professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Wellesley College. She is the author of Imaging Japanese America: The Visual Construction of Citizenship, Nation, and the Body.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Illinois Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0252086473
• ISBN 13: 9780252086472
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 188
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• Personne responsable: non disponible