The Spectacle of Japanese American Trauma: Racial Performativity and World War II

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225 Index Page numbers in boldface refer to illustrations. actor-criminals, 58, 62–63, 67, 72–73, 75, 98 Adams, Ansel, 122, 204n.34 African Americans, 12, 28, 157, 162, 170–171 Ahn, Phillip, 109 Althusser, Louis, 9, 197n.4 ambivalence, 123, 128–130, 161, 175 American Dream, 52, 68–69 American Legion, 74, 109, 142 American Magazine, 71–72, 75 Americanization. See assimilation antitheatrical prejudice, 30–31, 62–63, 66–67, 91–92 archiving, 13–15, 65, 93–94, 124–125, 130. See also spectacle-archive assembly centers, 110, 112–117 assimilation, 15, 17, 27, 54–55, 68, 71, 87, 93, 97, 135–136, 139–140, 142–143, 147, 152–153, 157, 160, 164, 169–172, 203n.16 atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 7 Austin, J. L., 12, 183n.41 Automatons. See dehumanization avant-garde, 38, 41–42 Barish, Jonas, 30–31 Barker, Ma, 66–67 Barthes, Roland, 188n.67 baseball, 123, 174 baton twirling, 17, 122, 125, 170, 171, 203n.16 beauty pageants, 125, 131, 134 Benedict, Ruth, 16, 31–34, 45, 51–55, 145, 158, 167–168, 190n.107 Bhabha, Homi, 51, 68, 92, 128–130 Biddle, Francis, 84, 99 blackface minstrelsy, 7, 27–28, 156–157, 161–162, 170, 185n.31, 186n.33 Bohnaker, William, 51 Bosworth, Allan, 177 Bowron, Fletcher, 86, 131, 137, 200n.28 Boy Scouts, 174 Brandon, James, 144–146 Brecht, Bertolt, 8, 39 Broadway, 112, 156, 170 Brooks, Peter, 198n.11 Brown, Robert, 126 bunraku, 38–39, 144, 188n.67 Butler, Judith, 11–12, 14 Buy a Bomber, 101, 105, 109 buyo, 136, 144, 165, 174, 207n.66 Cabaret International, 153–156, 164, 170 camp plays, postwar, 18 Capra, Frank, 88 cartoons, 98, 98–99, 106, 127, 138 Caruth, Cathy, 1–2, 5–6, 10, 181n.21 celebrity, 111, 113, 115. See also humaninterest journalism Chekhov, Anton, 174 Chicago, 83–84, 151 Chinatown, 60, 68 226 Index Chinese, versus Japanese, 50–51, 54, 107, 185n.12 Chinese Americans, 13–14, 30, 54, 60, 90, 107–108 Chinese culture, 157, 162 Chow, Rey, 9–10, 29–30, 32, 100, 103 Chrysanthemum and the Sword, The, 16, 31–33, 51–52, 54 Chūshingura, 55, 145, 158, 166–168 Civil Liberties Act, 18, 121 Close, Upton, 45, 47–50 Collins, Frederick, 57, 64, 70, 76 Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC), 18, 59, 180n.8 Community Activities Cooperative Association (CACA), 147 Community Activities Department, 137 Community Council, 159–161 Congress, U.S., 87–88, 104, 106, 125–126, 175 Conquergood, Dwight, vii Constitution, U.S., 13, 142, 197n.3 Construction Department, 159, 164–168, 173 Cooper, Courtney Ryley, 64, 75, 90–91 Cooperman, Robert, 205n.45, 207n.64 Craig, Edward Gordon, 38–40, 91 Craigie, Robert, 51 Cress, C. F ., 204n.24 criminology, 95 cultural nationalism, 71, 135–140, 147 dance, 17, 28, 50, 108–109, 116–117, 128, 136, 139, 144, 152–158, 170, 171 Daniels, Roger, 101, 195n.115 de Certeau, Michel, 7, 182n.28, 212n.51 Debord, Guy, 4, 8, 15, 25, 102, 148 dehumanization, 3, 43, 47–48, 63, 74, 89, 91, 103–104, 113–115, 201n.44 depersonalization. See dehumanization Depression, the, 58, 87, 89, 103, 117 Derrida, Jacques, 13, 203n.17 Deshima, 22 DeWitt, John, 108, 150, 194n.96 Dies, Martin, 74 Draft. See Selective Service Drinnon, Richard, 151 East West Players, 122 Edwards, Osman, 34–38, 46, 48 Eisenstein, Sergei, 39, 43–45 Eliot, T. S., 177 Embrey, Sue Kunitomi, 120 Endo, Mitsuye, 142, 176 Enemy Alien Registration Section, 60 Eng, David, 86 Engei Club, 162 Erickson, Kai, 183n.36 espionage, 58, 65, 67–78, 97, 108, 191n.4 evacuation notices, 6, 126 Ex parte Mitsuye Endo, 142, 176–177 farce, 58, 110, 119 Farewell to Manzanar, 125, 203n.16 fascism, 8–9, 40, 102, 107 Feifer, George, 182n.30, 185n.20 Felman, Shoshana, 1, 4–5, 11, 181n.21 Fenollosa, Ernest, 38, 40 Ferguson, Harry, 123 festivals, 131–139, 143–144, 156, 161–163, 163 feudalism, 35–37, 40, 44–45, 48, 55, 144–146, 158 fifth column, 77–78, 97 Filipino Americans, 30, 107–109 fingerprinting, 90 Fortas, Abe, 176 Forty-Seven Ronin. See Chūshingura 442nd Regimental Combat Team, 55, 151, 209n.14 Fourth of July observance, 137–140, 173–175 Frizzell, Louis, 134, 141 Fujikawa, Cynthia Gates, 122, 130, 204n.34 Fujikawa, Fred, 117 Funabiki, Kiku Hori, 88 gangsters, 58, 61–63, 66–67 gender, 66–69, 76, 117 Genet, Jean, 42 German Americans, 72, 74, 96–97, 110...