In search of Hiroshi : a Japanese American odyssey /
""Can one wreak vengeance against oneself?" This anguished question hangs over Gene Oishi's powerful memoir about his lifelong struggle to claim both his Japanese and American identities in the aftermath of World War II, when he and more than 120,000 other Japanese Americans were...
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| Language: | English |
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[Los Angeles, California] :
Kaya Press,
[2024]
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| Summary: | ""Can one wreak vengeance against oneself?" This anguished question hangs over Gene Oishi's powerful memoir about his lifelong struggle to claim both his Japanese and American identities in the aftermath of World War II, when he and more than 120,000 other Japanese Americans were forcibly removed from their homes and incarcerated in America's concentration camps. From the moment he and everyone like him on the West Coast is deemed a threat to national security by President Roosevelt's infamous Executive Order 9066, Oishi finds himself trying to distance himself from his Japanese heritage even as he questions whether he will ever truly be accepted as fully American. Throughout his return to California as a teenager, his postwar service in the US Army and his subsequent career in journalism and politics, the deep wounds caused by the trauma of incarceration continue to fester. A memoir about the lingering racial trauma of America's concentration camps, from the author of Fox Drum Bebop." |
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| Item Description: | "First edition published by Charles E. Tuttle Company in 1988"--Colophon. |
| Physical Description: | 213 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781885030825 1885030827 |