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Enfolding silence : the transformation of Japanese American religion and art under oppression / Brett J. Esaki.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Esaki, Brett J., author.
- Series:
- American Academy of Religion academy series.
- AAR Academy Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Japanese Americans--Social conditions.
- Japanese Americans.
- Japanese Americans--Intellectual life.
- Japanese Americans--Religion.
- Arts, Japanese--United States--History.
- Arts, Japanese.
- Silence--Social aspects--United States--History.
- Silence.
- Marginality, Social--United States--History.
- Marginality, Social.
- Social change--United States--History.
- Social change.
- Arts and society--United States--History.
- Arts and society.
- Racism--United States--History.
- Racism.
- United States--Race relations--History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (281 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book explores how Japanese Americans have developed traditions of complex silences to survive historic moments of racial and religious marginalization and how they continue to adapt these traditions today. Utilizing case studies and histories of the Japanese American arts of gardening, origami, jazz, and monuments, Brett Esaki provides a theory of silence that goes beyond the binary of sound and its absence to articulate the multiple layers of silence that exist for Japanese Americans.
- Contents:
- Introduction: "They're Just like White Kids" : Genealogy and Theory of Japanese American Non-Binary Silence
- Gardening, the Silence of Space, and the Humanity of Judgment
- Origami, the Silence of Self, and the Spirit of Vulnerability
- Jazz, the Silence of Time, and Modes of Justice
- Monuments, the Silence of Legacy, and Kodomo Tame Ni
- Epilogue: "Whiz Kids"? : Racial Shamelessness, the Model Minority, and the Future of Silence
- Appendix: Background Information Sheet and Interview Questionnaire.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-061265-7
- 0-19-025135-2
- 0-19-025143-3
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