Photographs of a Japanese Canadian internment camp: mourning loss and invoking a future1

Autor:	Kirsten E. McAllister
Rok vydání:	2006
Předmět:	Cultural Studies Government History genetic structures Visual Arts and Performing Arts National museum media_common.quotation_subject World War II Plan (archaeology) Japanese race Visual arts Anthropology Reading (process) media_common
Zdroj:	Visual Studies. 21:133-156
ISSN:	1472-5878 1472-586X
DOI:	10.1080/14725860600944989
Popis:	This article examines photographic representations of an internment camp where the Canadian government held thousands of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War. The photographs were illegally taken by internees from the Tashme internment camp and were subsequently donated to the Japanese Canadian National Museum. The representations of the camp are strikingly different. One set of photographs presents the harsh living conditions in Tashme and the other, idyllic scenes of ‘nature’ where the camp was located. With the retrospective knowledge that the internment camps were part of a larger plan to systematically remove ‘all people of the Japanese race’ from Canada, it is difficult not read the ‘nature’ photographs as shocking denials of reality. The article resists this reading and instead explores what each set of representations says about how the internees perceived the camps. A closer analysis of each set of photographs reveals signs of life as well as substitutions for what would have been diffi...
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