The Internment Ordeal in a Post-Truth World
Contemporary Narratives of the Japanese American Incarceration
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Beschreibung
The volume explores how contemporary representations of the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II are reshaping the collective memory of that painful experience, while at the same time implicitly offering a commentary on current limitations of human and civil rights in the United States. One of the worst cases of violation of civil liberties against an ethnic group in the history of the country, the Japanese American internment has recently become the subject of a renewed interest both in literature and in other popular media. With their rendition of events, twenty-first century authors and artists are offering a new, enriching, and more inclusive understanding of the incarceration experience, both in order to broaden the comprehension of that event and highlight how it is still relevant today. By analyzing works of literary fiction, memoirs, TV series, and graphic novels, this monograph argues that contemporary literature and other media play a significant role in the development of a new conversation about the internment experience.
Autor*in
Nicolangelo Becce
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Contemporary Ethnic Literature Japanese American History Media Studies Memory Studies Julie Otsuka The Terror: Infamy Kiku Hughes Gene Oishi_x000D_