Last Witness: Reflections on the Wartime Internment of Japanese Americans - Couverture rigide

Harth, Erica

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0312221991 ISBN 13 : 9780312221997

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2001

Synopsis

Sixty years after President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066, which resulted in the mass incarceration of over 110,000 people of Japanese descent, two-thirds of them American citizens, the question "could this happen again?" remains unresolved. For the writers represented in this volume - novelists, memoirists, poets, activists, professors, students, professionals - the wartime internment is a central and as yet unclosed chapter of American history. Former internees and their children join with others to offer a cross generational and compelling story, told in part by some of the people who lived it, that continues to tarnish the American Dream.

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À propos de l'auteur

ERICA HARTH is Professor of Humanities and Women's Studies at Brandeis University. She is the author of numerous publications on early modern France, most recently, Cartesian Women: Versions and Subversions of Rational Discourse in the Old Regime (1992). She has also written personal essays on her experience of having spent a year of her childhood at Manzanar, California (one of the ten so-called relocation centers for Japanese Americans), where her mother was working for the War Relocation Authority, the administrative agency for the internment camps.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0312221991
• ISBN 13: 9780312221997
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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