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Last Witnesses: Reflections on the Wartime Internment of Japanese Americans de Erica Harth

Last Witnesses: Reflections on the Wartime Internment of Japanese Americans

Editat de Erica Harth
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 apr 2003

Sixty years after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor and FDR's Executive Order 9066 making possible the incarceration of 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 WWII 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, that continues to tarnish the American dream.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781403962300
ISBN-10: 1403962308
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: 25 b/w photos
Dimensiuni: 150 x 226 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Ediția:First.
Editura: Palgrave
Locul publicării:Basingstoke, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Introduction--Erica Harth * Part I: Parents and Children * Another Spring--Toyo Suyemoto * Legacy of Silence (i)--Mitsuye Yamada * Legacy of Silence (ii)--Jeni Yamada * Echoes from Generation to Generation--Donna K. Nagata * Part II: Family Secrets * Mixing Stories--Stewart David Ikeda * A Daughter's Need to Know--Marnie Mueller * Return to Gila River--George F. Brown * Part III: What We Took from the Camps * Memories from Behind Barbed Wire--John Tateishi * Pictures from Camp--Patrick S. Hayashi * "Isamu Noguchi: 5-7-A, Poston, Arizona"--Robert J. Maeda * From Manzanar to the Present: A Personal Journey--Sue Kunitomi Embrey * Democracy for Beginners--Erica Harth * Part IV: From the Past to the Future * Ethnic Expectations: The Politics of Staging the Internment Camps--Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro * The Life and Times of Rabbit in the Moon --Chizu Omori * The Legacy of the Battle of Bruyères: Reflections of a Sansei Francophile--Valerie Nao Yoshimura * Loyalty and Concentration Camps in America: The Japanese American Precedent and the Internal Security Act of 1950--Allan Wesley Austin * Nineteen in '98: A Conversation on Studying the Internment--Jason Kohn & Cara Lemon

Recenzii

'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

Notă biografică

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.

Caracteristici

1 There has never been a successful solution to the way Japanese-Americans were detained during WWII, fuelling people's curiosity
2 The editor is the daughter of one of the teachers in the camp at Manzanar, CA
3 A good number of the people in the book were detained in the camps and give first-hand accounts
4 This book will be extremely popular on the West Coast, especially in Northern California and Washington

Descriere

Sixty years after the Japanese bombing of 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 WWII 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.