Last Witnesses

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.

'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

• 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