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Artifacts of loss : crafting survival in Japanese American concentration camps / Jane E. Dusselier
- Author
- Dusselier, Jane E. (Jane Elizabeth)
- Published
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2008]
- Copyright Date
- ©2008
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xiv, 200 pages) : illustrations
Access Online
- Language Note
- English.
- Contents
- Visual accounts of loss -- Remaking inside places -- Re-territorializing outside spaces -- Making connections -- Mental landscapes of survival -- Contemporary legacies of loss.
- Summary
- 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.
- Subject(s)
- 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
- Américains d'origine japonaise—Relogement et internement forcés, 1942-1945—Aspect psychologique
- Camps d'internement—États-Unis—Aspect psychologique
- Détenus de camp d'internement artistes—États-Unis
- Américains d'origine japonaise—Culture matérielle
- HISTORY—Military—World War II.
- SOCIAL SCIENCE—Ethnic Studies—Asian American Studies
- Internment camp inmates as artists
- Internment camps—Psychological aspects
- Kunsthandwerk
- Internierung
- Alltag
- United States
- USA
- Japaner
- ISBN
- 9780813546421 (electronic bk.)
0813546427 (electronic bk.)
9786612033476
6612033479
9780813544076 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
0813544076 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
9780813544083 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0813544084 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
1282033476
9781282033474 - Digital File Characteristics
- data file
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-196) and index.
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