Imaging Japanese America: The Visual Construction of Citizenship, Nation, and the Body - Couverture souple

Creef, Elena Tajima

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0814716229 ISBN 13 : 9780814716229

Editeur : New York University Press, 2004

Synopsis

As we have been reminded by the renewed acceptance of racial profiling, and the detention and deportation of hundreds of immigrants of Arab and Muslim descent on unknown charges following September 11, in times of national crisis we take refuge in the visual construction of citizenship in order to imagine ourselves as part of a larger, cohesive national American community.
Beginning with another moment of national historical trauma--December 7, 1941 and the subsequent internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans--Imaging Japanese America unearths stunning and seldom seen photographs of Japanese Americans by the likes of Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams, and Toyo Mitatake. In turn, Elena Tajima Creef examines the perspective from inside, as visualized by Mine Okubo's Maus-like dramatic cartoon and by films made by Asian Americans about the internment experience. She then traces the ways in which contemporary representations of Japanese Americans in popular culture are inflected by the politics of historical memory from World War II. Creef closes with a look at the representation of the multiracial Japanese American body at the turn of the millennium.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Elena Tajima Creef is Associate Professor of Women's Studies at Wellesley College.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New York University Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0814716229
• ISBN 13: 9780814716229
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 245
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