The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration

Herausgeber: Abe, Frank; Cheung, Floyd

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"The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration Edited with an Introduction by Frank Abe and Floyd Cheung TARGET CONSUMER: Readers of They Called Us Enemy by George Takei, No No Boy by John Okada, Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Facing the Mountain by Daniel James Brown, When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka, and Only What We Could Carry by Lawson Fusao Inada The collective voice of Japanese Americans defined by a specific moment in time: the four years of World War II during which the US government expelled resident aliens and its own citizens from their homes and imprisoned 125,000 of them in American concentration camps, based solely upon the race they shared with a wartime enemy. A Penguin Classic 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"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Transworld
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 127mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 234g
• ISBN-13: 9780143133285
• ISBN-10: 0143133284
• Artikelnr.: 68724265

Autorenporträt

Frank Abe is co-author of the graphic novel We Hereby Refuse and the American Book Award-winning John Okada: The Life & Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy, and creator of the award-winning PBS documentary, Conscience and the Constitution. Floyd Cheung is a professor of English at Smith College. He has edited several books including the Penguin Classics edition of H.T. Tsiang’s The Hanging on Union Square, and is co-editor of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature and Culture, and John Okada: The Life and Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy.

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Preface by Frank Abe and Floyd Cheung 
THE LITERATURE OF JAPANESE AMERICAN INCARCERATION
PART I: BEFORE CAMP
Introduction to Part I 
Arrival and Community
1. Henry (Yoshitaka) Kiyama, “Arrival in San Francisco” and “The Turlock
Incident”
2. Ayako Ishigaki (as Haru Matsui), “Whither Immigrants”  
3. Toshio Mori, “Lil’ Yokohama”
Arrest and Alien Internment
4. Shelley Ayame Nishimura Ota, “Those Airplanes Outside Aren’t Ours”
5. Kamekichi Tokita, “1941 (Showa 16)”  
6. John Okada (as Anonymous), “I Must Be Strong”
7. Bunyu Fujimura, “Arrest”  
8. Fujiwo Tanisaki, “They Took Our Father Too”  
9. Otokichi Ozaki (as Muin Ozaki), “Fort Sill Internment Camp”  
10. Yasutaro Soga (as Keiho Soga), “Sand Island and Santa Fe Internment
Camps”  
11. Iwao Matsushita, “I Can’t Bear to Be Stigmatized as ‘Potentially
Dangerous’ ”  
Cooperation and Refusal EXECUTIVE ORDER  
12. James Omura, “Has the Gestapo Come to America?”  
13. Mike Masaoka, “Decision to Cooperate” 50 INSTRUCTIONS TO ALL PERSONS OF
JAPANESE ANCESTRY  
14. Gordon K. Hirabayashi, “Why I Refuse to Register for Evacuation”  
15. Charles Kikuchi, “Kicked Out of Berkeley”  
PART II: THE CAMPS
Introduction to Part II  
Fairgrounds and Racetracks
16. Monica Sone, “Life in Camp Harmony”  
17. Mitsuye Yamada, “Curfew”  
18. Portland Senryū Poets, “Resolution and Readiness, Confusion and Doubt”
19. Yoshio Abe, “Lover’s Lane”  
Deserts and Swamps RECOMMENDATIONS TO MILTON EISENHOWER, DIRECTOR, WAR
RELOCATION AUTHORITY  
20. Lily Yuriko Nakai Havey, “Fry Bread”  
21. Toyo Suyemoto, “Barracks Home”  
22. Authorship uncertain, “That Damned Fence”  
23. Kiyo Sato, “I Am a Prisoner in a Concentration Camp in My Own Country”
24. Masae Wada, “Gila Relocation Center Song”  
25. Cherry Tanaka, “The Unpleasantness of the Year”
26. Hiroshi Nakamura, “Alice Hasn’t Come Home”
27. Joe Kurihara, “The Martyrs of Camp Manzanar”
28. Iwao Kawakami, “The Paper”
29. Nao Akutsu, “Send Back the Father of These American Citizens”
Registration and Segregation STATEMENT OF UNITED STATES CITIZEN OF JAPANESE
ANCESTRY
30. Topaz Resident Committee, “We Respectfully Ask for Immediate Answers”
31. Kentaro Takatsui, “The Factual Causes and Reasons Why I Refused to
Register”
32. Sada Murayama, “Loyalty”
33. Mitsuye Yamada, “Cincinnati”
CONFIDENTIAL STATEMENT TO DILLON MYER, DIRECTOR, WAR RELOCATION AUTHORITY
34. Kazuo Kawai (as Ryōji Hiei), “This Is Like Going to Prison”
35. Noboru Shirai, “The Army Takes Control”
36. Hyakuissei Okamoto, “Several brethren arrested after martial law was
declared at Tule Lake in November 1943”
37. Violet Kazue de Cristoforo, “Brother’s Imprisonment”
38. Tatsuo Ryusei Inouye, “Hunger Strike”
39. Bunichi Kagawa, “Geta”
Volunteers and the Draft
40. Minoru Masuda, “A Lonely and Personal Decision”
41. Tamotsu Shibutani, “The Activation of Company K”
42. Toshio Mori, “She Is My Mother, and I Am the Son Who Volunteered”
43. Jōji Nozawa, “Father of Volunteers”
44. Fuyo Tanagi and the Mothers Society of Minidoka, “Petition to President
Roosevelt”
45. Yoshito Kuromiya, “Fair Play Committee”
46. Frank Emi and the Fair Play Committee, “We Hereby Refuse . . . In Order
to Contest the Issue”  
47. Eddie Yanagisako and Kenroku Sumida, “Song of Cheyenne”
Resegregation and Renunciation AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR LOSS OF UNITED STATES
NATIONALITY UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES.
48. Noboru Shirai, “Wa Shoi Wa Shoi, the Emergence of the ‘Headband’ Group”
49. Motomu Akashi, “Badges of Honor”
50. Joe Kurihara, “Japs They Are, Citizens or Not”
51. Hiroshi Kashiwagi, “Starting from Loomis . . . Again”
PART III: AFTER CAMP
Introduction to Part III 223
Resettlement and Reconnection
52. James Takeda (as Bean Takeda), “The Year Is 2045”
53. David Mura, “Internment Camp Psychology”
54. Shizue Iwatsuki, “Returning Home”
55. Toyo Suyemoto, “Topaz, Utah”
56. Janice Mirikitani, “We, the Dangerous”
57. Amy Uyematsu, “December 7 Always Brings Christmas Early”
58. Brian Komei Dempster, “Your Hands Guide Me Through Trains”
59. Christine Kitano, “1942: In Response to Executive Order 9066, My
Father, Sixteen, Takes”
Redress
60. Shosuke Sasaki and the Seattle Evacuation Redress Committee, “An Appeal
for Action to Obtain Redress for the World War II Evacuation and
Imprisonment of Japanese Americans” 247 PERSONAL JUSTICE DENIED, PART 2:
RECOMMENDATIONS
61. William Minoru Hohri, “The Complaint”
62. Jeanne Sakata, “Coram Nobis Press Conference” 260 LETTER FROM THE WHITE
HOUSE
63. traci kato- iriyama, “No Redress”
Repeating History
64. Perry Miyake, “Evacuation, the Sequel”
65. Fred Korematsu, “Do We Really Need to Relearn the Lessons of Japanese
American Internment?”
66. Brandon Shimoda, “We Have Been Here Before”
67. Brynn Saito, “Theses on the Philosophy of History”
68. Frank Abe, Tamiko Nimura, Ross Ishikawa, Matt Sasaki, “Never Again Is
Now” 287
Acknowledgments
Suggestions for Further Exploration
About the Authors
Credits and Copyright Notices