Transfigured patterns: Contesting memories at the Manzanar National Historic Site

Public Historian

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 51-71

  Hayashi, Robert T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH   (United States)

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EID: 31144447640     PISSN: 02723433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/tph.2003.25.4.51     Document Type: Review

References (31)

1. James Young makes a similar observation about Holocaust memorialization and its effect on limiting the range of Jewish history. See James Young, The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993).
2. Subcommittee Hearings, 43.
3. John Bodnar, Remaking America: Public Memory, Commemoration, and Patriotism in The Twentieth Century (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992), 170.
4. Congressional Record (June 24, 1991), H 4889.
5. Rea Tajiri, dir., History and Memory, 1991.
6. Nadine Ishitani Hata, The Historic Preservation Movement in California: 1940-1976, (California Dept. of Parks, 1992), 166-80.
7. Milan Simonich, "Japanese Americans Awaiting Memorial to Internment Camps," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 15 December, 1996.
8. Caroline Chung Simpson's recent text, An Absent Presence: Japanese Americans in Post-war American Culture (Durham: Duke University Press, 2001) provides an interesting analysis of how the mistreatment of Japanese Americans during World War II has posed a challenge to the coherence of national memory, one that has led to the displacement and misrepresentation of this history.
9. Pierre Nora, "Between Memory and History," Representations, 26 (Spring 1989): 13.
10. Jessie Garrett and Ronald C. Larson, Camp and Community: Manzanar and the Owens Valley (Fullerton: California State University Press, 1977), 151.
11. Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and John Houston, Farewell to Manzanar (New York: Bantam Books, 1973).
12. Lawson Fusao Inada, Before the War: Poems as They Happen (New York: Morrow, 1971).
13. National Japanese American Historical Society, "A National Memorial to Patriotism: The Japanese American Experience," 1997.
14. David Yoo, "Captivating Memories: Museology Concentration Camps, and Japanese American History," American Quarterly, 48, no. 4 (December 1996): 694.
15. The Nisei Soldiers, prod. Peter Kenney, The History Channel, 1997.
16. I rely here on the ideas of collective memory and group identity articulated by Maurice Halbwachs. See Maurice Halbwachs, The Collective Memory (New York: Harper Colophon, 1980).
17. Robert Pirosh, dir., Go For Broke, 1951.
18. Ansel Adams, Born Free and Equal: The Story of Loyal Japanese Americans (New York: U.S. Camera, 1944).
19. Linda M. Rancourt, "Remembering Manzanar," National Parks, 67, no. 5-6 (May-June 1993): 33.
20. William L. Kahrl, Water and Power (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982), 371.
21. Garrett and Larson, Camp and Community, 36.
22. Marc Reisner, Cadillac Desert (New York: Viking, 1986), 59.
23. For the history of the Owens Valley and LAWP, see also John Walton, Western Times and Water Wars (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992)
24. and William L. Kahrl, Water and Power: The Conflict over Los Angeles' Water Supply in the Owens Valley (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982).
25. Committee Report, 6.
26. Paul Feldman, "DWP, U.S. Snag Blocks Monument," The Los Angeles Times, 13 June, 1991.
27. Lillian Baker, Dishonoring America: The Falsification of World War II History (Medford: Webb Research Group, 1994).
28. Martin Forstenzer, "Bitter Feelings Still Run Deep at Camp," Los Angeles Times, 4 April, 1996.
29. William Booth, "A Lonely Patch of History," The Washington Post, 15 April, 1997.
30. Carl Nolte, "Lonesome Monument to a National Heartache," The San Francisco Chronicle, 13 April, 1997.
31. Booth, "A Lonely Patch of History."