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

'That Damned Fence' paints a haunting and intimate portrait of the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans. Drawing on fiction, journalism, poetry and art produced by the internees themselves, the book explores how factors such as the camps' physical settings; the class, gend...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hathaway, Heather (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY, United States of America : 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. Littérature américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique. Littérature américaine > 20e siècle > Périodiques > Histoire et critique. Américains d'origine japonaise > Relogement et internement forcés, 1942-1945. Identité collective dans la littérature. Américains d'origine japonaise > Vie intellectuelle > 20e siècle. American literature American literature > Japanese American authors American literature > Periodicals Group identity in literature 1900-1999 Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Literary criticism Literary criticism. Critiques littéraires.
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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
Miné 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.