ETH STD 11AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Japanese Americans, Dialectic, Community Arts
18 Nov 2020
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Murals have served as kind of countersite. Reflect processes of racial formation & community formation. National narrative of the border (not just physical possessions, but memories as well) Spaciousness is closely associated with the sense of being free. Freedom implies space; it means having the power and enough room in which to act. Fundamental is the ability to transcend the present condition, and this transcendence is most simply manifest as the elementary power to move. In the act of moving, space and its attributes are directly experienced. An immobile person will have difficulty mastering even primitive ideas of abstract space, for such ideas develop out of movement out of the direct experiencing of space through movement. Symbols of immobilization & coerced movement are foregrounded into what america has always had to offer to immigrant population. Always attainable & there as part of american dream. Japanese american art & literature of dealing with fallout of internment.
