ISBN:
9780252053399
,
0252053397
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 167 pages)
,
illustrations
Series Statement:
The Asian American experience
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Creef, Elena Tajima Shadow traces
DDC:
305.48/89956073
Keywords:
Japanese American women Portraits
;
Japanese American women Archives
;
Women, Ainu Portraits
;
Women, Ainu Archives
;
War brides Portraits
;
War brides Archives
;
Photograph collections Social aspects
;
Portrait photography Social aspects
;
Japanese American women
;
Photograph collections ; Social aspects
;
Portrait photography ; Social aspects
;
War brides
;
Women, Ainu
;
Archives
;
Portraits
;
United States
Abstract:
Those "mysterious little Japanese primitives" -- Looking at Japanese picture brides -- Beauty behind barbed wire -- Filling in the blank spot in an incomplete war bride archive.
Abstract:
"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"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
URL:
https://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252044403.001.0001
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