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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782989303321

Autore

Dusselier Jane E (Jane Elizabeth)

Titolo

Artifacts of loss [[electronic resource] ] : crafting survival in Japanese American concentration camps / / Jane E. Dusselier

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2008

ISBN

9786612033476

1-282-03347-6

0-8135-4642-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (218 p.)

Disciplina

940.53/1773

940.531773

Soggetti

Japanese Americans - Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 - Psychological aspects

Internment camps - United States - Psychological aspects

Internment camp inmates as artists - United States

Japanese American decorative arts

Japanese Americans - Material culture

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 (p. 167-196) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Visual Accounts of Loss; Chapter 2: Remaking Inside Places; Chapter 3: Re-territorializing Outside Spaces; Chapter 4: Making Connections; Chapter 5: Mental Landscapes of Survival; Chapter 6: Contemporary Legacies of Loss; Notes; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

In Artifacts of Loss, Jane E. Dusselier looks at the lives of Japanese  American internees through the lens of their art.Dusselier urges her  readers to consider these often overlooked folk crafts as meaningful  political statements which are significant as material forms of protest  and as representations of loss.