Relocating authority : Japanese Americans writing to redress mass incarceration / Mira Shimabukuro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shimabukuro, Mira, author.

Series:

George and Sakaye Aratani Nikkei in the Americas series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945--Historiography.

Japanese Americans.

Japanese Americans--Reparations--History--20th century.

Authority--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.

Authority.

Creative writing--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.

Creative writing.

Literacy--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.

Literacy.

Japanese Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.

Japanese Americans--Social conditions--20th century.

Community life--United States--History--20th century.

Community life.

Social change--United States--History--20th century.

Social change.

Social justice.

History.

Japanese Americans--Social conditions.

Intellectual life.

Literacy--Social aspects.

Creative writing--Social aspects.

Authority--Social aspects.

Reparations for historical injustices.

Historiography.

United States.

Social justice--United States--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

xiv, 250 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, [2015]

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

Writing-to-Redress : Attending to Nikkei Literacies of Survivance

ReCollecting Nikkei Dissidence : The Politics of Archival Recovery and Community Self-Knowledge

ReCollected Tapestries : The Circumstances Behind Writing-to-Redress

Me Inwardly Before I Dared : Attending Silent Literacies of Gaman

Everyone put in a word : The Multisources of Collective Authority Behind Public Writing-to-Redress

Another Earnest Petition : ReWriting Mothers of Minidoka

Relocating Authority : Expanding the Significance of Writing-to-Redress

Appendices.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781607324003

1607324008

OCLC:

910334151