Imaging Japanese America

Elena Tajima Creef is Associate Professor of Women's Studies at Wellesley College.

"An astute and lucid study of visual representations of Japanese Americans and an important original work for understanding American history in the second half of the twentieth century. Creef elegantly reads the myriad interdisciplinary contexts in which dynamics of race, gender, class, and nation frame Japanese Americans as foreign or the same, alien or national, while revealing the hidden costs such representations extract from individuals and communities." - Shirley Geok-lin Lim,University of California, Santa Barbara "Imaging Japanese America examines myriad genres of visual and linguistic representation in order to understand the historical and contemporary 'imaging' of Japanese Americans. It is both an artful writing project and an exemplary scholarly work within the field of visual culture studies. Readers will appreciate the interdisciplinary methodology, the rich detailed analysis, and Creef's powerful voice. A joy to read—one learns something new at every turn." - Kent A. Ono,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "[Creef] examines myriad genres of visual and linguistic representation in order to understand the historical and contemporary 'imaging' of Japanese Americans." - Kent A. Ono,University of Illinois "In engaging and lucid prose, each chapter moves through sensitive and nuanced analyses of a carefully chosen juxtaposition of biographies of individual artists and writers, cultural productions, academic texts, institutional practices and discourses, and material artifacts." (Feminist Studies)

• Acknowledgments IntroductionCarving Japanese American Memory into Place1 The Representation of the Japanese American Body in the Documentary Photography of Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and Toyo Miyatake2 Beyond the Camera and between the Words Inserting Oneself into the Picture and into Japanese American(Art) History-Mine Okubo's Citizen and the Power of Visual Autobiography 3 The Gendering of Historical Trauma in Wartime Films and the Disciplining of the Japanese American Body 4 Museums, Memory, and ManzanarContesting Our National Japanese American Past through a Politics of Visibility5 Another Lesson in "How to Tell Your Friends Apart from the Japs"The Winter Olympics Showdown between Kristi Yamaguchi of the United States and Midori Ito of Japan EpilogueImag(in)ing the Multiracial Japanese American Body at the Turn of the Millennium Notes Bibliography Index About the author