Shadow traces : seeing Japanese/American and Ainu women in photographic archives / Elena Tajima Creef.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Creef, Elena Tajima, author.

Series:

Asian American experience

The Asian American experience

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese American women--Portraits.

Japanese American women.

Japanese American women--Archives.

Women, Ainu--United States--Portraits.

Women, Ainu.

Women, Ainu--United States--Archives.

War brides--United States--Portraits.

War brides.

War brides--United States--Archives.

Photograph collections--Social aspects--United States.

Photograph collections.

Portrait photography--Social aspects--United States.

Portrait photography.

Photograph collections--Social aspects.

Portrait photography--Social aspects.

United States.

Genre:

Archives

Portraits

Physical Description:

xii, 167 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2022]

Summary:

"Images of Japanese and Japanese American women can teach us what it meant to be visible at specific moments in history. Elena Tajima Creef employs an Asian American feminist vantage point to examine ways of looking at indigenous Japanese Ainu women taking part in the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition; Japanese immigrant picture brides of the early twentieth century; interned Nisei women in World War II camps; and Japanese war brides who immigrated to the United States in the 1950s. Creef illustrates how an against-the-grain viewing of these images and other archival materials offers textual traces that invite us to reconsider the visual history of these women and other distinct historical groups. As she shows, using an archival collection's range as a lens and frame helps us discover new intersections between race, class, gender, history, and photography. Innovative and engaging, Shadow Traces illuminates how photographs shape the history of marginalized people and outlines a method for using such materials in interdisciplinary research"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Those "mysterious little Japanese primitives"

Looking at Japanese picture brides

Beauty behind barbed wire

Filling in the blank spot in an incomplete war bride archive.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Creef, Elena Tajima. Shadow traces

ISBN:

9780252044403

0252044401

9780252086472

0252086473

OCLC:

1266360734