Teaching Justice Aesthetically: Dwelling in Japanese American Art and Religion

IF 0.4 4区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF AESTHETIC EDUCATION Pub Date : 2020-01-30 DOI:10.5406/jaesteduc.54.1.0119
Courtney T. Goto
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Abstract:Enfolding Silence is a sociological study of how Japanese Americans have developed various art forms to cope with, resist, and transform traumatic experiences of racism, including the mass, unlawful internment of nearly 120,000 people of Japanese descent during World War II. By examining an extended ethnographic case study, educators and students can reflect on how a community teaches aesthetically across generations, as one generation traumatized by racism teaches what matters culturally, aesthetically, and spiritually to the next. The author (Brett J. Esaki) analyzes four Japanese American art forms—gardening, origami, jazz, and monuments—in terms of what he calls “non-binary silence.” Esaki uses the metaphor of silence as a tool to enable readers to grasp the complexity of Japanese American art, showing how art has facilitated one community to be and become more authentic and whole in the face of adversity. For scholars and students of aesthetic education, this volume raises awareness of assumptions about silence and space, as it expands preconceived, common notions of these terms. It fosters appreciation for the pedagogic richness of art forms that are familiar to many, placing them in historical, religious, cultural, and political perspective. Finally, the book illumines the role of art in resisting oppression, providing rich cases that can be mined for implications for aesthetic education.
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正义的美学教学:日裔美国人艺术与宗教的审视
摘要:《保持沉默》是一项社会学研究,研究日裔美国人如何发展各种艺术形式来应对、抵抗和改变种族主义的创伤经历,包括二战期间近12万日裔人被大规模非法拘留。通过研究一个扩展的民族志案例研究,教育工作者和学生可以反思一个社区是如何跨代进行美学教学的,因为受种族主义创伤的一代人向下一代人教授文化、美学和精神上重要的东西。作者(Brett J.Esaki)分析了四种日裔美国人的艺术形式——园艺、折纸、爵士乐和纪念碑——他称之为“非二元沉默”。Esaki使用沉默的隐喻作为一种工具,使读者能够理解日裔美国人艺术的复杂性,展示了艺术如何促进一个社区在逆境中变得更加真实和完整。对于美育学者和学生来说,这本书提高了人们对沉默和空间假设的认识,因为它扩展了这些术语的先入为主的常见概念。它促进了人们对许多人熟悉的艺术形式的教育丰富性的欣赏,并将其置于历史、宗教、文化和政治的角度。最后,本书阐明了艺术在反抗压迫中的作用,提供了丰富的案例,可以挖掘对美育的启示。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Aesthetic Education (JAE) is a highly respected interdisciplinary journal that focuses on clarifying the issues of aesthetic education understood in its most extensive meaning. The journal thus welcomes articles on philosophical aesthetics and education, to problem areas in education critical to arts and humanities at all institutional levels; to an understanding of the aesthetic import of the new communications media and environmental aesthetics; and to an understanding of the aesthetic character of humanistic disciplines. The journal is a valuable resource not only to educators, but also to philosophers, art critics and art historians.
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