Terrain of memory : a Japanese Canadian memorial project /

This book explores how Japanese Canadians living in an isolated mountainous valley in the province of British Columbia worked together to transform the village where they lived for over fifty years from a site of political violence into a space for remembrance.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: McAllister, Kirsten Emiko
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2010.
Subjects:
Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre.
Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre
1900-1999
Japanese > British Columbia > New Denver > History > 20th century.
Japanese > Canada > Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945.
Memorials > British Columbia > New Denver.
Collective memory > British Columbia > New Denver.
Japanese Canadians > British Columbia > New Denver > History > 20th century.
Japanese Canadians > Forced relocation and internment, 1941-1949.
Canadiens d'origine japonaise > Relogement et internement forcés, 1941-1949.
HISTORY > Canada > General.
Collective memory
Ethnic relations
Japanese
Memorials
New Denver (B.C.) > History.
New Denver (B.C.) > Ethnic relations.
British Columbia > New Denver
Canada
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The drive to do research
  • A necessary crisis
  • Mapping the spaces of internment
  • The chronotope of the (im)memorial
  • Continuity and change between generations
  • Making space for other memories in the historical landscape
  • In memory of others
  • Points of departure.

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