Trans-Pacific Minor Visions in Japanese Diasporic Art

Abstract

This special issue of adva Journal sheds light on new dimensions of Japanese diasporic art to reflect the encounters of Japanese diaspora artists with other transmigrants and/or minoritized and marginalized peoples. We echo Viet Thanh Nguyen and Janet Hoskins’ approach to defining “Trans-Pacific” as not a particular geographical region, but as “spaces of interaction.”1 In this spirit, we have sought to feature horizontal encounters, networks, and alliances, and fos-ter conversations between minoritized and marginalized peoples and “oth-ered” Japanese and Japanese diasporic artists and scholars, all of whom have complex identities, multiple perspectives, and transcended borders. There has been a recent scholarship Japanese American art, including Artistic Journey Moreover, Japanese artists recognized