Speaking Up! Democracy, Justice, Dignity
日系アメリカ人の地位回復を果たした「市民自由法」制定25周年を記念して、全米日系人博物館は、2013年7月4日から7日にかけてワシントン州シアトルで、第4回全米会議『Speaking Up! Democracy, Justice, Dignity』を行いました。この会議では、民主主義、正義、尊厳をテーマに、新しい見識、学術的論考、コミュニティの観点を紹介しました。
このシリーズでは、今回の会議で発表されたさまざまな視点からみる日系アメリカ人の体験談だけでなく、会議に参加した方々の反応などを中心に紹介します。
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このシリーズのストーリー
A Much Debated Question
2013年9月30日 • ジュリエット・S・コウノ
“Poetic license?…” appears to be the hot topic of the day, and is a much debated question. What liberties, and how much can a writer of something historical take in his or her representations? This is the question that was posed to our panel at the recent JANM conference in Seattle that Professor Steven Sumida of the University of Washington convened and moderated. I can neither speak for Joy Kogawa nor Naomi Hirahara, my fellow panelists, concerning the dynamics of …
Taiko as Folklore
2013年9月19日 • スタンリー・シクマ
Since ancient times, taiko has played an important role in the folklore of Japan. Taiko appear in many Japanese myths and legends, and it is the principal instrument for the folk music of that island nation. In recent times, taiko has taken root in North America, largely among the third and fourth generation descendants of Japanese immigrants (Sansei and Yonsei). Can folklore survive and is it still useful to modern day Americans? Is taiko being used to develop or create a …
My Opposition to the Registration
2013年9月17日 • ヒロシ・カシワギ
Background I will begin with a brief background of my life before camp as I feel it has some bearing on my reaction to the loyalty questionnaire or the so-called “Registration” order. My parents being aliens, foreigners, and outsiders, I remember that our life was quite marginalized. For example, my father’s store at the far end of town was always referred to as the “Jap store” by the people in town. Growing up, I constantly heard my father use the term …
Of No-No Boy and No-No Boys: At the Seattle 2013 JANM Conference
2013年9月12日 • タミコ・ニムラ
“How do you as a storyteller account for traces of the erased, the denied or that flat out vanished?”—Junot Díaz From Twitter: July 15, 2013, 12:35PM: @Tulelakenps: Today, 70 years ago in 1943, Tule Lake was declared a Segregation Center, incarcerating all Japanese Americans deemed “disloyal”. “Your name?” I’m picking up my registration packet for the Japanese American National Museum conference, held in Seattle a few weeks ago. “Nimura, N-I-M…” I begin, and start to spell out my last name for …
Excerpt from "Gently to Nagasaki" (a work in progress) - Chapter 46
2013年9月10日 • ジョイ・コガワ
It was a quirky millisecond contact of eyes in the city of angels, city of strangers. In 2011, I was in Los Angeles, attending an Asian American symposium. During a break before supper, Ray Hsu, a poet from Vancouver and I were exploring an area called Japan town. My first time there. Gift shops, restaurants, tourists milling about. We were wandering back out of the plaza when from out of nowhere a voice called, “Joy!” I turned, looked up. “It’s …
Excerpt from "Gently to Nagasaki" (a work in progress) - Chapter 42
2013年9月5日 • ジョイ・コガワ
My brother said the actions by a church that did not want us back were deliberate and intentional and had been concealed by a “code of silence” until Greg revealed them. The contrast between the companion churches in Vancouver and Seattle is a tale of two bishops, a good shepherd and a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Bishop Huston tends his flock. Bishop Heathcotte rends them. Love was alive in the Seattle church. The personal belongings of his exiled parishioners were …