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The Literature Of Japanese American Incarceration

Frank Abe

Floyd Cheung

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Binding: Paper Back

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Language: English

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This anthology presents a new vision that recovers and reframes the literature produced by the people targeted by the actions of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Congress to deny Americans of Japanese ancestry any individual hearings or other due process after the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor. From nearly seventy selections of fiction, poetry, essays, memoirs, and letters emerges a shared story of the struggle to retain personal integrity in the face of increasing dehumanization ? all anchored by the key government documents that incite the action. The selections favor the pointed over the poignant, and the unknown over the familiar, with several new translations among previously unseen works that have been long overlooked on the shelf, buried in the archives, or languished unread in the Japanese language. The writings are presented chronologically so that readers can trace the continuum of events as the incarcerees experienced it. The contributors span incarcerees, their children born in or soon after the camps, and their descendants who reflect on the long-term consequences of mass incarceration for themselves and the nation. Many of the voices are those of protest. Some are those of accommodation. All are authentic. Together they form an epic narrative with a singular vision of America?s past, one with disturbing resonances with the American present.

Additional Info
Author Frank Abe, Floyd Cheung
Publisher Penguin Classics
Language English
Binding Type Paper Back
Fiction Classic
ISBN13 9780143133285
SKU BK 0181450

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