| Lost and Found: Reclaiming the Japanese American Incarceration Contributor(s): Ishizuka, Karen L. (Author), Tchen, John Kuo Wei (Foreword by), Daniels, Roger (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 025207372X ISBN-13: 9780252073724 Publisher: University of Illinois Press OUR PRICE: $23.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2006 Annotation: Combining heartfelt stories with first-rate scholarship, Lost and Found reveals the complexities of a people reclaiming their own history. For decades, victims of the United States' mass incarceration of Americans of Japanese descent during World War II were kept from understanding their experience by governmental cover-ups, euphemisms, and societal silence. Indeed, the world as a whole knew little or nothing about this shamefully un-American event. The Japanese American National Museum mounted a critically acclaimed exhibition, "America's Concentration Camp: Remembering the Japanese American Experience," with the twin goals of educating the general public and engaging former inmates in coming to grips with and telling their own history. 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 this 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 ponders how the dual act of recovering--and recovering from--history necessitates private and public mediation between remembering and forgetting, speaking out and remaining silent. By embedding personal words and images within a framework of public narrative, Lost and Found works toward reclaiming a painful past and provides new insights with richness and depth. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 20th Century - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Asian American Studies |
| Dewey: 940.531 |
| LCCN: 2006003052 |
| Series: Asian American Experience (University of Illinois) |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 7.1" W x 8.08" (1.08 lbs) 264 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1940's - Ethnic Orientation - Japanese - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Blending official history with community memory to frame the historical moment of recovery, this book reveals the complexities of people reclaiming their own history. |