Bibliograph

Letters to memory, Karen Tei Yamashita

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Letters to memory, Karen Tei Yamashita

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-176)

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Letters to memory

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

971513859

Responsibility statement

Karen Tei Yamashita

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

To begin -- Poverty -- Modernity -- Love -- Death -- Laughter -- To end

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