Lost and Found : Reclaiming the Japanese American Incarceration (Asian American Experience)

Ishizuka, Karen L./ Tchen, John Kuo Wei (FRW)/ Daniels, Roger (FRW)

University of Illinois Press（2006/09発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 264 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780252073724
• DDC分類 940.531773

Full Description

For decades, a fog of governmental cover-ups, euphemisms, and societal silence kept the victims the mass incarceration of Americans of Japanese descent during World War II from understanding their experiences. The Japanese American National Museum mounted a critically acclaimed exhibition with the twin goals of educating the general public and encouraging former inmates to come to grips with and tell their own history. 

Combining heartfelt stories with first-rate scholarship, Lost and Found reveals the complexities of a people reclaiming the past. Author/curator Karen L. Ishizuka, a third-generation Japanese American, deftly blends official history with community memory to frame the historical moment of recovery within its cultural legacy. Detailing the interactive strategy that invited visitors to become part of the groundbreaking exhibition, Ishizuka narrates the processes of revelation and reclamation that unfolded as former internees and visitors alike confronted the experience of the camps. She also analyzes how the dual act of recovering-and recovering from-history necessitates private and public mediation between remembering and forgetting, speaking out and remaining silent.

Contents

1. The Legacy of Camp; 2. A Strategy of Process and Participation; 3. Grandma as History; 4. The Exhibition; 5. Something Strong Within; 6. Los Japoneses que Hablan Espanol and other stories that walked in the door; 7. Coming to Terms; 8. Recovering History and Recovering from History