Lucien Kubo’s work appeared on the Winter 2014 issue of Signs. Artist Statement: I am a Sansei, a third-generation Japanese American. An important part of my life experience is that of my parents, their family, and over 120,000 Japanese Americans incarcerated in internment camps during World War II. I think of my art as philosophical, historical, […]
Archive: November, 2013
Winter 2014 (vol. 39, no. 2)
This issue of Signs begins with two articles analyzing the literature of Japanese American internment, Sarah Dowling’s “‘How Lucky I Was to Be Free and Safe at Home’: Reading Humor in Miné Okubo’s Citizen 13660” and Cynthia Wu’s “Asian American Feminism’s Alliances with Men: Reading Hisaye Yamamoto’s ‘Seventeen Syllables.’” Dowling and Wu propose modes of […]
Signs at the 2013 National Women’s Studies Association Conference
There are two opportunities to speak with Signs editors at the upcoming NWSA conference, Negotiating Points of Encounter. At the workshop “Academic Publishing in Women’s Studies: Journals,” Signs editor in chief Mary Hawkesworth will join editors of other top women’s studies journals–Gail Cohee of Feminist Teacher, Sandra Soto of Feminist Formations, and Ashwini Tambe of Feminist […]