Author : Yoshiko Uchida
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 23,64 MB
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0295806532
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, everything changed for Yoshiko Uchida. Desert Exile is her autobiographical account of life before and during World War II. The book does more than relate the day-to-day experience of living in stalls at the Tanforan Racetrack, the assembly center just south of San Francisco, and in the Topaz, Utah, internment camp. It tells the story of the courage and strength displayed by those who were interned. Replaces ISBN 9780295961903
Author : Yoshiko Uchida
Publisher : UBS Publishers' Distributors
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,24 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780295961903
Autobiographical account of the internment of the Japanese American author's family in 1942.
Author : Jeanette Arakawa
Publisher : Stone Bridge Press, Inc.
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 23,37 MB
Release : 2017-04-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1611729238
After Pearl Harbor, little Marie Mitsui’s typical life of school and playing with friends in San Francisco is upended. Her family and thousands of others of Japanese heritage are under suspicion and forcibly relocated to internment camps far from home. Living conditions in the camps are harsh, but in the end Marie finds freedom and hope for the future. Told from a child’s perspective, The Little Exile deftly conveys Marie’s innocence, wonder, fear, and outrage. This work of autobiographical fiction is based on the author’s own experience as a wartime internee. Jeanette Arakawa was born in San Francisco in 1932 and was interned in the 1940s at the Rohwer War Relocation Center in Arkansas.
Author : Ranen Omer-Sherman
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 18,7 MB
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0252092023
Israel in Exile is a bold exploration of how the ancient desert of Exodus and Numbers, as archetypal site of human liberation, forms a template for modern political identities, radical skepticism, and questioning of official narratives of the nation that appear in the works of contemporary Israeli authors including David Grossman, Shulamith Hareven, and Amos Oz, as well as diasporic writers such as Edmund Jabès and Simone Zelitch. In contrast to other ethnic and national representations, Jewish writers since antiquity have not constructed a neat antithesis between the desert and the city or nation; rather, the desert becomes a symbol against which the values of the city or nation can be tested, measured, and sometimes found wanting. This book examines how the ethical tension between the clashing Mosaic and Davidic paradigms of the desert still reverberate in secular Jewish literature and produce fascinating literary rewards. Omer-Sherman ultimately argues that the ancient encounter with the desert acquires a renewed urgency in response to the crisis brought about by national identities and territorial conflicts.
Author : Traise Yamamoto
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 11,82 MB
Release : 1999-01-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520210344
This sophisticated and comprehensive study is the first to situate Japanese American women's writing within theoretical contexts that provide a means of articulating the complex relationships between language and the body, gender and agency, nationalism and identity. Through an examination of post-World War II autobiographical writings, fiction, and poetry, Traise Yamamoto argues that these writers have employed the trope of masking—textually and psychologically—as a strategy to create an alternative discursive practice and to protect the self as subject. Yamamoto's range is broad, and her interdisciplinary approach yields richly textured, in-depth readings of a number of genres, including film and travel narrative. Looking at how the West has sexualized, infantilized, and feminized Japanese culture for over a century, she examines contemporary Japanese American women's struggle with this orientalist fantasy. Analyzing the various constraints and possibilities that these writers negotiate in order to articulate their differences, she shows how masking serves as a self-affirming discourse that dynamically interacts with mainstream culture's racial and sexual projections.
Author : Ellen Meloy
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 15,80 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780816522934
More than a century after John Wesley Powelllaunched his boat on the Green River, Ellen Meloy spent eight years of seasonal floats through Utah's Desolation Canyon with her husband, a federal river ranger. She came to know the history and natural history of this place well enough to call it home, and has recorded her observations in a book that is as wide-ranging as the river and as wild as the wilderness through which it runs.
Author : Yoshiko Uchida
Publisher :
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 38,6 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780295958989
Tells the story of one Japanese-American family's experiences in an internment camp in Utah during World War II
Author : Kiyo Sato
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 20,12 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1569475695
When her father left Japan, his mother told him never to return: there was no future there for him. Shinji Sato arrived in California determined to plant his roots in the Land of Opportunity even though he could not become a citizen. He and his wife started a farm and worked in the fields together with their nine children. At the outbreak of World War II, when Kiyo, the eldest, was 18, the Satos were ordered to Poston Internment Camp. Though they had lived the US for two decades and their children were citizens, they were suddenly uprooted and imprisoned by the government.
Author : Chuck Hogan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 40,76 MB
Release : 2012-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 141655887X
Another fabulous Boston-based thriller by Chuck Hogan, this one involving an Iraq war veteran who gets involved with dangerous big-time drug dealers.
Author : Raymond E. Feist
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 22,25 MB
Release : 2005-03-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0380977109
The evil Duke of Olasko is lord no more—vanquished by his nemesis Tal Hawkins, the Talon of the Silver Hawk. Saved by a mage's intervention from certain death, the once-feared despot has been reduced to an exile's existence, forced to wander the harshest realms of the world he once enslaved. Conclave of Shadows: Book Three Only days ago, Kaspar, the powerful Duke of Olasko, had great armies at his command and was feared by nations. Now, half a world away from home, he is separated from his former seat of power by merciless deserts, forbidding mountains, and vast oceans. The fall of the tyrant is complete, his dark dreams of vengeance overwhelmed by the daily struggle for his very survival. But Kaspar's prodigious skills and cunning provide him the opportunity he seeks, guarding merchant travelers returning to the other side of the world and back to his homeland. Yet there is a larger drama that will entangle the broken dictator. An evil more devastating and deadly than any encountered in Midkemia for centuries seeks entrance to the land—the mystical tool of a dark empire hungry for conquest and destruction—and Kaspar has inadvertently discovered the key. The man responsible for the slaughter of countless men, women, and children must now assume a far stranger and most unlikely role—that of hero—if his world is to survive. For dire peril is advancing daily, and a long-slumbering malevolence is awakening to wreak havoc on the unsuspecting and unprepared. Suddenly, Midkemia's last hope is a disgraced and exiled duke whose history is written in blood, and who now must wield his sword as her champion ... if he so chooses.
