Description
Book SynopsisThis 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.
Trade ReviewTerrain of Memory is a powerful contribution to cultural studies and memory work...employing an approach that scrutinizes with exacting honesty her moments of crisis, blockages, and breakthroughs, McAllister unfolds a scholarly activist praxis that is ethical, inventive, inimitable, and suffused with dramatic emotional struggle.
-- Glenn Deer * University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol 81, No 3 *
The novelty of the subject, distinctive methodological approach, engaging voice, and sophisticated analysis makes Terrain of Memory a worthwhile selection for public history classes seeking to model how to understand both past and present meanings of monuments and memorials, though the more analyti-cal sections may be more appropriate for advanced rather than introductory.
-- Gail Dubrow * The Public Historian, Vol 34, No 4 *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Drive to Do Research
1 A Necessary Crisis
2 Mapping the Spaces of Internment
3 The Chronotope of the (Im)memorial
4 Continuity and Change between Generations
5 Making Space for Other Memories in the Historical Landscape
6 In Memory of Others
Conclusion: Points of Departure
Notes
References
Index
