Version 1
: Received: 20 April 2023 / Approved: 21 April 2023 / Online: 21 April 2023 (08:32:43 CEST)
How to cite:
Rodriguez-Cunill, I.; Cabeza-Lainez, J.M.; Lopez-Cabrales, M.D.M. Art and the City’s Fiction in Japanese-American internment camps. Sequels for sustainability.. Preprints2023, 2023040689. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202304.0689.v1
Rodriguez-Cunill, I.; Cabeza-Lainez, J.M.; Lopez-Cabrales, M.D.M. Art and the City’s Fiction in Japanese-American internment camps. Sequels for sustainability.. Preprints 2023, 2023040689. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202304.0689.v1
Rodriguez-Cunill, I.; Cabeza-Lainez, J.M.; Lopez-Cabrales, M.D.M. Art and the City’s Fiction in Japanese-American internment camps. Sequels for sustainability.. Preprints2023, 2023040689. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202304.0689.v1
APA Style
Rodriguez-Cunill, I., Cabeza-Lainez, J.M., & Lopez-Cabrales, M.D.M. (2023). Art and the City’s Fiction in Japanese-American internment camps. Sequels for sustainability.. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202304.0689.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Rodriguez-Cunill, I., Jose Maria Cabeza-Lainez and Maria del Mar Lopez-Cabrales. 2023 "Art and the City’s Fiction in Japanese-American internment camps. Sequels for sustainability." Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202304.0689.v1
Abstract
In this article, we have tried to answer the questions of how an entire city's fiction was created for the development of Japanese American internment camps and in which way contributions of sustainable crafts and even art could have interceded. To this aim, we have searched the literature and reviewed archives, primarily from the American West Coast. We have found that beyond adaptation to the circumstances, the visual representation of the city's settlement, founding, and daily activities, instead of typical panoptic or somber prisons’ imagery, are depicted in the selected images and that their use precisely fostered its sustainability. This leads us to deduce that a "city fiction" was necessary for such survival and endurance and that its artistic representation was primarily involved in the state's ideological apparatus. On the other hand, fissures subtly seethed the violence exerted in the camps by stealth and in a hidden fashion. We have concluded that artistic activity justified the city's fiction, together with other examples, highlighting the conditions of systemic violence and oppression for the inmates. In this framework, the artworks generated constitute a historical document of sustainability.
Keywords
Japanese-American Internment Camps; Gaman bunka or culture of resignation; Art and violence; sustainability in hostile environments; redress to victims
Subject
Arts and Humanities, Other
Copyright:
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