At their best, ethnic museums serve to make new art and histories more accessible and visible and provide a forum in which to debate contemporary issues of politics and identity. The museums vary considerably in the ways they perceive their role in the community, the city, and the nation and in the preservation and display of ethnic culture. We further present case studies of three Los Angeles ethnic museums. We survey the mission, scope, and role of ethnic museums in Los Angeles, and we contrast them with the stated mission and scope of "mainstream" museums in the city. In this paper we examine the genesis and evolution of these emerging institutions. Published quarterly, the journal explores the traditional arenas of rhetorical investigation including executive leadership, diplomacy, political campaigns, judicial and legislative deliberations, and public policy debate. Although this is certainly a national phenomenon, it has been particularly evident in Los Angeles. Rhetoric & Public Affairs is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the history, theory, and criticism of public discourse. and with World War Two all but over, the Enola Gay became the first and only aircraft in history to drop an atomic Weapon. The Johns Hopkins University Press and the Society for the History of Technology. This book is a major contribution to what the authors call 'critical war remembering.'"-Bruce Cumings, author of Parallax Visions: Making Sense of American-East Asian Relations at the End of the Century "Unsettling official national accounts with memories of war from Okinawa, Guam, and Taiwan, of the Nanjing massacre, occupied Singapore, and the Hiroshima bombing-PERILOUS MEMORIES provokes a haunting dialectic between familiar history and endangered memories."-Lisa Lowe, University of California, San Diego Read more.In the last thirty years, ethnic museums have mushroomed in American cities. 'A Narrative for Our Time: The Enola Gay 'And after That, Period''. At every turn, Perilous Memories counterpoints the extraordinary elites who have dominated historical memory with the recuperated experience of their victims.
With this volume we have an incomparable guide to what Walter Benjamin once described as the 'copernican turn to remembrance.'"-Harry Harootunian, New York University "This excellent interdisciplinary collection of essays gives diverse and heterogeneous voice to many ordinary people who suffered in the Asian wars that began in 1931-wars that, for many of these same people, never really ended. Fujitani, Geoffrey White, and Lisa Yoneyama forcefully rescue the memories of other wars and genocides in the arena of Asia-Pacific to remind us of the dangerous but necessary task of the present to actualize the past in order to remember the forgotten yet unforgettable. The authors gathered in this volume edited by T. "Perilous Memories is a major statement in current discussions concerned with assessing the problematic relationship of history and memory. The politics of war memories toward healing / Chungmoo Choi.Įdited by T. the Japanese army": Black soldiers and civilians confront the Asia Pacific War / George Lipsitz -Ĭolonialism and atom bombs: about survivors of Hiroshima living in Korea / Toyonaga Keisaburō. "Trapped in history" on the way to utopia: East Asia's "Great War" fifty years later / Arif Dirlik -įor transformative knowledge and postnationalist public spheres: the Smithsonian Enola Gay controversy / Lisa Yoneyama. Moving history: the Pearl Harbor film(s) / Geoffrey M. national, military, and racial discourses / T. Go for broke, the movie: Japanese American soldiers in U.S. Memory suppression and memory production: the Japanese occupation of Singapore / Diana Wong. Korean "imperial soldiers": remembering colonialism and crimes against Allied POWs / Utsumi Aiko.
Imagery and war in Japan: 1995 / Morio Watanabe -ĭeliberating "Liberation Day": identity, history, memory, and war in Guam / Vicente M. Images of Islanders in Pacific War photographs / Lamont Lindstrom. Memories of war and Okinawa / Ishihara Masaie. The malleable and the contested: the Nanjing Massacre in postwar China and Japan / Daqing Yang. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.Ībsent images of memory: remembering and reenacting the Japanese internment / Marita Sturken. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1.