1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457983803321

Autore

Ammons Elizabeth

Titolo

Brave new words [[electronic resource] ] : how literature will save the planet / / Elizabeth Ammons

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 2010

ISBN

1-58729-922-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (214 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/35

Soggetti

American literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Social change - Philosophy

Humanism - Social aspects

Social problems in literature

Social justice in literature

Humanism in literature

Literature and morals

Literature and society

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Postmodern fundamentalism -- What David Walker and Harriet Beecher Stowe still have to teach us -- The multicultural imperative -- Rising waters -- Jesus, Marx, and the future of the planet.

Sommario/riassunto

Brave New Words challenges present and future literary scholars and teachers to look beyond mere literary critique toward the concrete issue of social change and how to achieve it. Calling for a profound realignment of thought and spirit in the service of positive social change, Ammons argues for the continued importance of multiculturalism in the twenty-first century despite attacks on the concept from both right and left. Concentrating on activist U.S. writers-from ecocritics to feminists to those dedicated to exposing race and class biases, from Jim Wallis and Cornel West to Winona LaDuk



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778534303321

Autore

Hirabayashi Lane Ryo

Titolo

Japanese American resettlement through the lens : Hikaru Carl Iwasaki and the WRA's Photographic Section, 1943-1945  / / Lane Ryo Hirabayashi ; with Kenichiro Shimada ; photographs by Hikaru Carl Iwasaki ; foreword by the honorable Norman Y. Mineta

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boulder, Colorado : , : University Press of Colorado, , [2009]

2009

ISBN

1-4571-1080-6

0-87081-971-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (244 p.)

Disciplina

940.53/1773

Soggetti

Japanese Americans - Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945

World War, 1939-1945 - Photography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-214) and index.

Nota di contenuto

List of figures -- Foreword / Norman Y. Mineta -- THe electronic circulation of WRA photos -- Photographing Japanese American resettlement -- The WRA's approach to Japanese American resettlement, 1943-1945 -- Policy and production of WRAPS photographs -- Phase one: the WRA's photographic section, 1942 -- Phase Two: the WRA's Photographic section, 1943-1945 -- Hikaru Iwasaki's resettlement photos, 1943-1945 -- Hikaru Carl Iwasaki -- Selection -- WRA photographs -- Assessment -- Short-term impact of the WRAPS photographs -0-0 Analysis: the performative work of WRAPS photographs -- Reflections -- THe past as prologue -- Reappropriation one: assertions of humanity, courage and perseverance in the WRA camps -- Reappropriation two: resettlement challenges -- Reappropriation three: recaptioning WRAPS photos -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Glossary -- References cited -- About the authors.

Sommario/riassunto

In Japanese American Resettlement through the Lens, Lane Ryo Hirabayashi gathers a unique collection of photographs by War Relocation Authority photographer Hikaru Iwasaki, the only full-time WRA photographer from the period still living.  With substantive focus



on resettlement - and in particular Iwasaki's photos of Japanese Americans following their release from WRA camps from 1943 to 1945 - Hirabayashi explores the WRA's use of photography in its mission not only to encourage ""loyal"" Japanese Americans to return to society at large as quickly as possible but also to convince Euro-American