TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dusselier,Jane E.
TI  - Artifacts of Loss: Crafting Survival in Japanese American Concentration Camps 
SN  - 9780813544076
U1  - 940.53/1773 22
PY  - 2008///]
CY  - New Brunswick, NJ : 
PB  - Rutgers University Press, 
KW  - Concentration camp inmates as artists
KW  - United States
KW  - Concentration camps
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Japanese American decorative arts
KW  - Japanese Americans
KW  - Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
KW  - Material culture
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; 1. Visual Accounts of Loss --; 2. Remaking Inside Places --; 3. Re-territorializing Outside Spaces --; 4. Making Connections --; 5. Mental Landscapes of Survival --; 6. Contemporary Legacies of Loss --; Notes --; Index --; About the Author; restricted access
N2  - From 1942 to 1946, as America prepared for war, 120,000 people of Japanese descent were forcibly interned in harsh desert camps across the American west. In Artifacts of Loss, Jane E. Dusselier looks at the lives of these internees through the lens of their art. These camp-made creations included flowers made with tissue paper and shells, wood carvings of pets left behind, furniture made from discarded apple crates, gardens grown next to their housingùanything to help alleviate the visual deprivation and isolation caused by their circumstances. Their crafts were also central in sustaining, re-forming, and inspiring new relationships. Creating, exhibiting, consuming, living with, and thinking about art became embedded in the everyday patterns of camp life and helped provide internees with sustenance for mental, emotional, and psychic survival. Dusselier urges her readers to consider these often overlooked folk crafts as meaningful political statements which are significant as material forms of protest and as representations of loss. She concludes briefly with a discussion of other displaced people around the globe today and the ways in which personal and group identity is reflected in similar creative ways
UR  - https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813546421
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813546421
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780813546421/original
ER  -