Desert exile : the uprooting of a Japanese American family / Yoshiko Uchida ; with a new introduction by Traise Yamamoto.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Uchida, Yoshiko, author.

Yamamoto, Traise, author of introduction, etc.

Series:

Classics of Asian American Literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Uchida, Yoshiko.

Tanforan Assembly Center (San Bruno, Calif.).

Central Utah Relocation Center.

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

Japanese Americans.

Japanese Americans--California--Biography.

World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.

World War, 1939-1945.

California--Biography.

California.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (182 pages)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Seattle, Washington ; London, [England] : University of Washington Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Introduction to the 2015 editionThe house above Grove Street

On being Japanese and American

Pearl Harbor

Evacuation

Tanforan : a horse stall for four

Tanforan : city behind barbed wire

Topaz : city of dust

Topaz : winter's despair

Epilogue.

Notes:

Originally published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 1982

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-295-80653-2

OCLC:

922700541