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Terrain of Memory: A Japanese Canadian Memorial Project
Kirsten Emiko McAllister
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Description for Terrain of Memory: A Japanese Canadian Memorial Project
Paperback. This book explores how Japanese Canadians living in an isolated mountainous valley in the province of British Columbia worked together to transform the village where they lived for over fifty years from a site of political violence into a space for remembrance. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 458.
For communities who have been the target of political violence, the after-effects can haunt what remains of their families, their communities, and the societies in which they live. Terrain of Memory tells the story of the Japanese Canadian elders who built a memorial in 1994 to mark a village in an isolated mountainous valley in British Columbia with their history of internment. It explores memory as a powerful collective cultural practice, following elders and locals as they worked together to transform a site of political violence into a space for remembrance. They transformed a valley where once over 7,000 women, ... Read more
For communities who have been the target of political violence, the after-effects can haunt what remains of their families, their communities, and the societies in which they live. Terrain of Memory tells the story of the Japanese Canadian elders who built a memorial in 1994 to mark a village in an isolated mountainous valley in British Columbia with their history of internment. It explores memory as a powerful collective cultural practice, following elders and locals as they worked together to transform a site of political violence into a space for remembrance. They transformed a valley where once over 7,000 women, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774817721
SKU
V9780774817721
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About Kirsten Emiko McAllister
Kirsten Emiko McAllister is an associate professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University.
Reviews for Terrain of Memory: A Japanese Canadian Memorial Project
Terrain of Memory is a powerful contribution to cultural studies and memory work...employing an approach that scrutinizes with exacting honesty her moments of crisis, blockages, and breakthroughs, McAllister unfolds a scholarly activist praxis that is ethical, inventive, inimitable, and suffused with dramatic emotional struggle.
Glenn Deer
University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol 81, No 3
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Glenn Deer
University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol 81, No 3
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