Mine Okubo

Greg Robinson is associate professor of history at the Université du Quebéc a Montréal. Elena Tajima Creef is associate professor of women's studies at Wellesley College. Other contributors are Laura Card, Fay Chiang, Vivian Fumiko Chin, Heather Fryer, Masumi Hayashi, Sohei Hohri, Lynne Horiuchi, Clemens Kalischer, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, James Masao Mitsui, Stella Oh, Kimberley L. Phillips, and Irene Poon.

• Preface / Greg Robinson and Elena Tajima CreefColor PlatesFollowing Her Own Road: The Achievement of Mine Okubo / Elena Tajima CreefPart I: An Artistic and Literary PortfolioA Selection of Drawings and Paintings / Mine Okubo1. Riverside / Mine Okubo and Fay Chiang2. An Artist's Credo: A Personal Statement / Mine Okubo3. An Evacuee's Hopes - and Memories / Mine Okubo4. Statement Before the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Citizens / Mine Okubo5. Letters from Mine Okubo to Isamu Noguchi6. Letters from Mine Okubo to Dr. Roy W. LeeperPart II: Scholarly Essays7. Gestures of Noncompliance: Resisting, Inventing, and Enduring in Citizen 13660 / Vivian Fumiko Chin8. Mine Okubo's War: Citizen 13660's Attack on Government Propaganda / Heather Fryer9. To Keep a Record of Life: Mine Okubo's Autographic Manga and Wartime History / Kimberley L. Phillips10. Mine Okubo's Citizen 13660 and Her Trek Artwork: Space, Movement, Image, Text, and Their Sites of Production / Lynne Horiuchi11. Mine Okubo's Illustrations for Trek Magazine: Sites of Resistance / Laura Card12. Paradoxes of Citizenship: Re-Viewing the Japanese American Internment in Mine Okubo's Citizen 13660 / Stella Oh13. Birth of a Citizen: Mine Okubo and the Politics of Symbolism / Greg RobinsonPart III: Reminiscences and Tributes14. Holding Center: Tanforan Race Track, Spring 1942 / James Masao Matsui15. A Remembering / Sohei Hohri16. A Tribute to Mine Okubo / Greg Robinson17. A Memory of Genius / Shirley Geok-lin Lim A Partial Chronology of Mine Okubo's Life and WorkSelected BibliographyContributorsIllustration CreditsIndex

"Whereas the social and historical value of this [Citizen 13660] body of work is well established, the critical re-readings gathered in Mine Okubo: Following Her Own Road aim to interrogate and to expand the ways in which Citizen 13660 has come to be understood more than sixty years after its postwar publication…. Whether a reader agrees wholly or in part with the particulars of the seven central essays, what remains incontestable is the value of such projects in eliciting new and sometimes provocative thoughts on the small but steadily growing body of discourse on Asian American art and visual culture."