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Relocating Authority : Japanese Americans Writing to Redress Mass Incarceration

Shimabukuro, Mira, author

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\"Relocating Authority examines the ways Japanese Americans have continually used writing to respond to the circumstances of their community's mass imprisonment during World War II. Using both Nikkei cultural frameworks and community-specific history for methodological inspiration and guidance, Mira Shimabukuro shows how writing was used privately and publicly to individually survive and collectively resist the conditions of incarceration. Examining a wide range of diverse texts and literacy practices such as diary entries, note-taking, manifestos, and multiple drafts of single documents, Relocating Authority draws upon community archives, visual histories, and Asian American history and theory to reveal the ways writing has served as a critical tool for incarcerees and their descendants. Incarcerees not only used writing to redress the 'internment' in the moment but also created pieces of text that enabled and inspired further redress long after the camps had closed. Relocating Authority highlights literacy's enduring potential to participate in social change and assist an imprisoned people in relocating authority away from their captors and back to their community and themselves. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of ethnic and Asian American rhetorics, American studies, and anyone interested in the relationship between literacy and social justice\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: University Press of Colorado
• Subject: Japanese Americans Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 Historiography. / Japanese Americans Reparations History 20th century. / Authority Social aspects United States History 20th century. / Creative writing Social aspects United States History 20th century. / Literacy Social aspects United States History 20th century. / Japanese Americans Intellectual life 20th century. / Japanese Americans Social conditions 20th century. / Community life United States History 20th century. / Social change United States History 20th century. / Social justice United States History 20th century. / LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Composition & Creative Writing. / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies. / HISTORY / Military / World War II.
• ISBN: 9781607324003

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
D769.8.A6 S54 2015	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE