Enfolding Silence - The Transformation of Japanese American Religion and Art under Oppression (Hardcover)

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. In order to examine Japanese Americans' complex relationship to silence, Brett Esaki offers four case studies of Japanese American art-gardening, origami, jazz, and monument construction-and examines how each artistic practice has responded to a historic moment of oppression. In doing so, he finds that these artistic silences incorporate and convey obfuscated 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, this book provides a non-binary theory of silence that articulates how multidimensional silences are formed and how they function. Brett Esaki 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.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	AAR Academy Series
Release date:	June 2016
Authors:	Brett J. Esaki (Assistant Professor of American Religions)
Dimensions:	244 x 162 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	280
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-025142-0
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > Art styles not limited by date > General Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Black studies Books > History > American history > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > General
LSN:	0-19-025142-5
Barcode:	9780190251420

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