Last Witnesses

Reflections on the Wartime Internment of Japanese Americans

Häftad, Engelska, 2003

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Beskrivning

Decades after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and FDR's Executive Order 9066 incarcerating over 110,000 Americans of Japanese descent (two thirds of them American citizens) one question remains unresolved: "Could it happen again?" To the writers in this book - novelists, memoirists, poets, activists, scholars, students, professionals - the Wolrd War II internment of Japanese Americans in the detention camps of the west is an unfinished chapter of American history. Former internees and their children join with others in challenging readers to construct a better future by confronting the past. This is a fresh look at a compelling story, told by some of the people who lived it, that continues to tarnish the American Dream.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2003-05-01
Mått:156 x 234 x 29 mm
Vikt:364 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:Palgrave USA
ISBN:9781403962300

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ERICA HARTH is Professor of Humanities and Women's Studies at Brandeis University. She is the author of numerous publications on early modern France, most recently, Cartesian Women: Versions and Subversions of Rational Discourse in the Old Regime (1992). She has also written personal essays on her experience of having spent a year of her childhood at Manzanar, California (one of the ten so-called relocation centers for Japanese Americans), where her mother was working for the War Relocation Authority, the administrative agency for the internment camps.

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'What is ultimately at stake...is the significance of this incarceration for all Americans...The treatment of Japanese Americans resonates especially strongly.' - Publishers Weekly '...a unique volume.' - Library Journal '...a seamless chorus that sings the core lesson of a historical error.' - Women's Review of Books

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; E.Harth PART I: PARENTS AND CHILDREN Another Spring; T.Suyemoto Legacy of Silence (i); M.Yamada Legacy of Silence (ii); J.Yamada Echoes from Generation to Generation; D.K Nagata PART II: FAMILY SECRETS Mixing Stories; S.D.Ikeda A Daughter's Need to Know; M.Mueller Return to Gila River; G.F.Brown PART III: WHAT WE TOOK FROM THE CAMPS Memories from Behind Barbed Wire; J.Tateishi Pictures from Camp; P.S.Hayashi 'Isamu Noguchi: 5-7-A, Poston, Arizona'; R.J.Maeda From Manzanar to the Present: A Personal Journey; S.K.Embrey Democracy for Beginners; E.Harth PART IV: FROM THE PAST TO THE FUTURE Ethnic Expectations: The Politics of Staging the Internment Camps; R.Y.Alfaro The Life and Times of 'Rabbit in the Moon'; C.Omori The Legacy of the Battle of Bruyeres: Reflections of a Sansei Francophile; V.N.Yoshimura Loyalty and Concentration Camps in America: The Japanese American Precedent and the Internal Security Act of 1950; A.W.Austin Nineteen in '98: A Conversation on Studying the Internment; J.Kohn & C.Lemon