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...Lisa Yoneyama Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Critical Warps: Facticity, Transformative Knowledge, and Postnationalist Criticism in the Smithsonian Controversy Lisa Yoneyama The exhibition by the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum...

...- aged 35 mm negatives using newly emergent digital technology, I read in Newsweek that the Smithsonian Institution was under attack by World War 11 veterans groups for an exhibit it was planning to present on the atomic bombing...

... that commemorative summer to make “memory” their common theme. Washington would not have seen such numbers of museum goers with- out the months of media attention focused on the Smithsonian Institution’s controversial exhibit...

... Japanese Americans and the con- troversy surrounding the Smithsonian’s ill-fated atomic bomb exhibit sug- gest that America’s nostalgic war memories are beginning to fray around the edges. One of the mainstays of the canonical American...

... of the priority of mundane politics, that is, everyday existence. White and Figal, and John Treat (in a brief commentary on the recovery of historical detail in the wake of the Smithsonian debacle) all take pains to show how state memorials end up...

.... On the Magnitude of Certain Coefficients of Correlation in Man, &c .” In Proceedings of the Royal Society of London , vol. 66 : 23 – 32 . Rockhill W. W. 1905 . An Inquiry into the Population of China . (From the Smithsonian Report for 1904.) Washington, DC : Government Printing Office...

... historical context can risk violat- ing sacred spaces and sacred narratives and thus invite censure, no matter how persuasive the historian’s evidence might be.’ The Smithsonian Institution’s proposed historicized Enola Gay exhibit...

..., you know. -Michael Crichton, RiJing Sun WAR IS PEACE-George Orwell, z984 The emotionally charged discussions on both sides of the Pacific over the Smithsonian Institution’s attempt to represent the atomic bomb...

... . 1998 . “Introduction: The Legend of Hiroshima.” In Hiroshima's Shadow: Writings on the Denial of History and the Smithsonian Controversy , xxxi – lxxvii . Stony Creek, CT : Pamphleteer's Press . McKay Daniel . 2013 . “Ghosts in the Shell: On South Africa, the USA, and Japan.” Safundi...

..., 1 21. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution. Dudziak, Mary L. 2000. Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Fujitani, Takashi. 2011. Race for Empire: Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans during World War II. Berkeley...

... of Art in New York and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian showcased the first-ever presentation of first feature films by indig- enous filmmakers from around the world, entitled First Nations/First Features.   6...

... of the Ethnogeographic Board to its sponsors. Established in 1942 under the joint auspices of the National Research Council, the Ameri- can Council of Learned Societies, the Social Sciences Research Council, and the Smithsonian Institute, the board...

... to write a catalog essay for an exhibition on the Hindu great goddess at the Smithsonian for which I had no qualification — I’m not an art historian — I’m a British literature modernist and French and Ger- man comparativist, and completely...

... on the atomic bombs, especially in the aftermath of the disgraceful suppression of the Smithsonian Museum’s attempt to give a view of the bombs from the ground up.75 As this issue goes to press, I have learned that Fujioka Nobukatsu, a pro...

... as a postmodern regime of accumulation as it is decentered, dispersed, based on aesthetics (and not ethics), and reliant on spectacle.3 The size of the market is very hard to determine, and the numbers vary. The Smithsonian Magazine article...

..., to be too controversial for a public exhibit, such as at the Smithsonian. TS: Frankly, I cannot respond. I am not an American and I have no right to speak on this subject. I think that it must be left to Americans to ponder...

...: A Philosophical Perspective . Washington, DC : Smithsonian Institution . Huyssen Andreas . 2000 . “ Present Pasts: Media, Politics, Amnesia .” Public Culture 12 , no. 1 : 21 – 38 . Isaac Gwyneira . 2012 . “ Technology Becomes the Object: The Use of Electronic Media at the National...

...: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991), 185. 15. Richard Vinograd takes up this issue in “Vision and Revision in Seventeenth-­Century Painting,” in Proceedings of the Tung Ch’i-­ch’ang International Symposium, eds. Wai-­ching Ho...

... Steele (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989), 73–77. 33 While arm covers suggest sanitation benefits, their effectiveness remains unclear. I could not find texts explaining the purpose or emergence of arm covers...

.... While some scholars (e.g., Berthold Laufer, “The relations of the Chinese to the Philippine Islands,” Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collection 50 [1908]: 248–81) claim that the term might have derived from the Hokkien word sengdi or trade, others argue...