The spectacle of Japanese American trauma
Subtitle: racial performativity and World War II
By: Emily Roxworthy.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780824832209
Subjects: Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; World War, 1939-1945 -- Mass media and the war; World War, 1939-1945 -- Psychological aspects; World War, 1939-1945 -- United States; Concentration camps -- United States -- Psychological aspects; United States -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century
Description: "In The Spectacle of Japanese American Trauma, Emily Roxworthy contests the notion that the U.S. government's internment policies during World War II had little impact on the postwar lives of most Japanese Americans. After the curtain was lowered on the war following the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, many Americans behaved as if the "theatre of war" had ended and life could return to normal. Roxworthy demonstrates that this theatrical logic of segregating the real from the staged, the authentic experience from the political display, grew out of the manner in which internment was agitated for and instituted by the U.S. government and media.

During the war, Japanese Americans struggled to define themselves within the web of this theatrical logic, and they continue to reenact this trauma in public and private to this day."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.