Last Witnesses: Reflections on the Wartime Internment of Japanese Americans

Harth, Erica

ISBN 10: 0312221991 / ISBN 13: 9780312221997

Edité par Palgrave Macmillan (edition First Edition), 2001

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• Titre: Last Witnesses: Reflections on the Wartime Internment of Japanese Americans
• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan (edition First Edition)
• Date de parution: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0312221991
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780312221997
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: Good

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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.

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.