{"product_id":"mine-okubo-9780295987743","title":"Mine Okubo","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresents an examination of the life and work of Mine Okubo (1912-2001), a Nisei artist, writer, and social activist who repeatedly defied conventional role expectations for women and for Japanese Americans over her seventy-year career.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Whereas the social and historical value of this [Citizen 13660] body of work is well established, the critical re-readings gathered in \u003ci\u003eMine Okubo\u003c\/i\u003e: Following Her Own Road aim to interrogate and to expand the ways in which Citizen 13660 has come to be understood more than sixty years after its postwar publication…. Whether a reader agrees wholly or in part with the particulars of the seven central essays, what remains incontestable is the value of such projects in eliciting new and sometimes provocative thoughts on the small but steadily growing body of discourse on Asian American art and visual culture.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Journal of American Ethnic History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"It's hard not to like \u003ci\u003eMine Okubo\u003c\/i\u003e as we come to know her though this first book-length study of her life and work: feisty, eccentric, and deeply committed to her art. A slim, beautifully produced volume, \u003ci\u003eMine Okubo\u003c\/i\u003e: Following Her Own Road is both a tribute to the artist, who died in 2001, and an important step in remedying the dearth of scholarship on her work . . . . this collection offers less the 'definitive version' of her life and work, and more an incitement to re-view it in new ways that throw its power and charm into relief.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Rain Taxi *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Robinson and Creef have produced a fine and wonderful tribute to the life and work of \u003ci\u003eMine Okubo\u003c\/i\u003e. . . . There is something for everyone in this remarkably compact but dense volume. . . . The editors have produced a very 'smart' and beautiful retrospective of her life, giving us a sense of Okubo's rightful place in Japanese American history, as well as the larger canvas of American history.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Nichi Bei Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface \/ Greg Robinson and Elena Tajima Creef\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eColor Plates\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFollowing Her Own Road: The Achievement of \u003ci\u003eMine Okubo\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Elena Tajima Creef\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part I: An Artistic and Literary Portfolio\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Selection of Drawings and Paintings \/ \u003ci\u003eMine Okubo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Riverside \/ \u003ci\u003eMine Okubo\u003c\/i\u003e and Fay Chiang\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. An Artist's Credo: A Personal Statement \/ \u003ci\u003eMine Okubo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. An Evacuee's Hopes - and Memories \/ \u003ci\u003eMine Okubo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Statement Before the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Citizens \/ \u003ci\u003eMine Okubo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Letters from \u003ci\u003eMine Okubo\u003c\/i\u003e to Isamu Noguchi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Letters from \u003ci\u003eMine Okubo\u003c\/i\u003e to Dr. Roy W. Leeper\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart II: Scholarly Essays\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Gestures of Noncompliance: Resisting, Inventing, and Enduring in Citizen 13660 \/ Vivian Fumiko Chin\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. \u003ci\u003eMine Okubo\u003c\/i\u003e's War: Citizen 13660's Attack on Government Propaganda \/ Heather Fryer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. To Keep a Record of Life: \u003ci\u003eMine Okubo\u003c\/i\u003e's Autographic Manga and Wartime History \/ Kimberley L. Phillips\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. \u003ci\u003eMine Okubo\u003c\/i\u003e's Citizen 13660 and Her Trek Artwork: Space, Movement, Image, Text, and Their Sites of Production \/ Lynne Horiuchi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. \u003ci\u003eMine Okubo\u003c\/i\u003e's Illustrations for Trek Magazine: Sites of Resistance \/ Laura Card\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Paradoxes of Citizenship: Re-Viewing the Japanese American Internment in \u003ci\u003eMine Okubo\u003c\/i\u003e's Citizen 13660 \/ Stella Oh\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. Birth of a Citizen: \u003ci\u003eMine Okubo\u003c\/i\u003e and the Politics of Symbolism \/ Greg Robinson\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart III: Reminiscences and Tributes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Holding Center: Tanforan Race Track, Spring 1942 \/ James Masao Matsui\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. A Remembering \/ Sohei Hohri\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. A Tribute to \u003ci\u003eMine Okubo\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Greg Robinson\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17. A Memory of Genius \/ Shirley Geok-lin Lim \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Partial Chronology of \u003ci\u003eMine Okubo\u003c\/i\u003e's Life and Work\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelected Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Illustration Credits\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Washington Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400915788119,"sku":"9780295987743","price":29.66,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780295987743.jpg?v=1730471937","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mine-okubo-9780295987743","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}