Brett J. Esaki

Enfolding Silence (eBook, PDF)

The Transformation of Japanese American Religion and Art under Oppression

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book demonstrates how Japanese Americans have developed traditions of complex silences to survive historic moments of racial and religious oppression and how they continue to adapt these traditions today. Brett Esaki offers four case studies of Japanese American art-gardening, origami, jazz, and monuments-and examines how each artistic practice has responded to a historic moment of oppression. He finds that these artistic silences incorporate and convey obfuscated and hybridized religious ideas from Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Shinto, indigenous religions, and contemporary spirituality. While silence is often thought of as the binary opposite and absence of sound, Esaki offers a theory of non-binary silence that articulates how multidimensional silences are formed and how they function. He argues that non-binary silences have allowed Japanese Americans to disguise, adapt, and innovate religious resources in order to negotiate racism and oppressive ideologies from both the United States and Japan. Drawing from the fields of religious studies, ethnic studies, theology, anthropology, art, music, history, and psychoanalysis, this book highlights the ways in which silence has been used to communicate the complex emotions of historical survival, religious experience, and artistic inspiration.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190251437
• Artikelnr.: 48793517

Autorenporträt

Brett J. Esaki is Assistant Professor of American Religions at Georgia State University.

Inhaltsangabe

* List of Figures
* Acknowledgements
* Introduction: "They're Just like White Kids": Genealogy and Theory of
Japanese American Non-Binary Silence
* Chapter 1: Gardening, the Silence of Space, and the Humanity of
Judgment
* Chapter 2: Origami, the Silence of Self, and the Spirit of
Vulnerability
* Chapter 3: Jazz, the Silence of Time, and Modes of Justice
* Chapter 4: Monuments, the Silence of Legacy, and Kodomo Tame Ni
* Epilogue: "Whiz Kids"?: Racial Shamelessness, the Model Minority, and
the Future of Silence
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Appendix: Background Information Sheet and Interview Questionnaire
* Index