Letters to memory
By: Karen Tei Yamashita
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781566894876
Subjects: Japanese Americans; Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Biography
Description: Letters to Memory is an excursion through the Japanese internment using archival materials from the Yamashita family as well as a series of epistolary conversations with composite characters representing a range of academic specialties. Historians, anthropologists, classicists--their disciplines, and Yamashita's engagement with them, are a way for her to explore various aspects of the internment and to expand its meaning beyond her family, and our borders, to ideas of debt, forgiveness, civil rights, orientalism, and community-- Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-176).