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Author Hathaway, Heather, author.

Title That damned fence : the literature of the Japanese American prison camps / Heather Hathaway
Published New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2022]
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 268 pages) : illustrations (black and white)
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
Summary '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, gender and generational composition of their populations; and the attitudes of camp administrators toward the enterprise shaped the experiences of the detained. In so doing, it reveals the sorry and the humor, the despair and resilience with which Japanese Americans faced the injustice of their wartime incarcerations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academic, viewed March 31, 2023)
Subject 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
American literature
American literature -- Japanese American authors
American literature -- Periodicals
Group identity in literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780197628317
0197628311
0190098325
9780190098339
0190098333
9780190098322
Other Titles Literature of the Japanese American prison camps