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That damned fence : the literature of the Japanese American prison camps /

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This book explores writing produced by Japanese Americans during their World War II incarceration. In five of the ten War Relocation Authority camps, occasional literary magazines were published alongside weekly or daily newspapers. The newspapers communicated necessary information from camp adminis...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hathaway, Heather (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2022].
Subjects:
American literature > Japanese American authors > History and criticism.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
American literature > 20th century > Periodicals > History and criticism.
Japanese Americans > Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945.
Group identity in literature.
Japanese Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. Topaz, a literary hotbed
  • After the bombs: the experience of Toyo Suyemoto
  • Writing as resistance in Topaz: TREK and All Aboard
  • Toshio Mori: a literary life derailed
  • MineÌ? Okubo: an aesthetic life launched
  • Pt. 2. Writing elsewhere
  • The Pulse of Amache/Granada
  • Dispatches from tumultuous Tule Lake
  • Internment novels: Toshio Mori's the Brothers Murata and Hiroshi Nakamura's treadmill
  • Jerome's magnet
  • Humiliation and hope in Rohwer's the Pen.