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- Title
"PICTURE MAN": SHOKI KAYAMORI AND THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF COLONIAL ENCOUNTER IN ALASKA, 1912-1941.
- Authors
HU PEGUES, JULIANA
- Abstract
This essay focuses on the life and photographs of Shoki Kayamori, a Japanese migrant worker who settled in Yakutat, Alaska, in the 191os. For three decades he photographed the everyday activities of the town's denizens, but when World War II escalated, Kayamori committed suicide as rumors circulated that he was a spy. Based on nearly 7oo existing Kayamori photographs, this essay argues that Kayamori's visual archive demonstrates multiple liminal intimacies. In his photographic work, Kayamori crossed racial and gendered boundaries to represent both indigeneity and racial heterogeneity within Alaska's colonial encounter. Kayamori's liminal status also allowed him to capture Tlingit strategies for resistance outside of the traditional-modern binary. The framework of liminal intimacy allows for yet another type of reading, between the boundaries of Asian-American studies and Native studies, in order to elucidate a disavowed militarization and surveillance that highlights colonialism and modernity as co-constitutive processes.
- Subjects
YAKUTAT (Alaska); UNITED States; KAYAMORI, Shoki; JAPANESE people; PHOTOGRAPHERS; LIMINALITY; COLONIES in art; MODERNITY
- Publication
College Literature, 2014, Vol 41, Issue 1, p90
- ISSN
0093-3139
- Publication type
Essay