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Farewell to Manzanar : a true story of Japanese American experience during and after the World War II internment / Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston.
LIBRA E184.J3 H63 1974
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki.
- Manzanar War Relocation Center.
- Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945.
- Japanese Americans.
- Japanese Americans--California--Biography.
- World War, 1939-1945--Evacuation of civilians--California.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Evacuation of civilians.
- California.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 145 pages ; 18 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bantam Books, 1974, c1973.
- New York : Bantam Books, 1974, ©1973.
- Language Note:
- ESL 081/112.
- Summary:
- During World War II a community called Manzanar was hastily created in the high mountain desert country of California, est of the Sierras. Its purpose was to house thousands of Japanese American internees. One of the first families to arrive was the Wakatsukis, who were ordered to leave their fishing business in Long Beach and take with them only the belongings they could carry. For Jeanne Wakatsuki, a seven-year-old child, Manzanar became a way of life in which she struggled and adapted, observed and grew. For her father it was essentially the end of his life. At age thirty-seven, the author recalls life at Manzanat through the eyes of the child she was. She tells of her fear, confusion, and bewilderment as well as the dignity and great resourcefulness of people in oppressive and demeaning circumstances.
- Contents:
- "What is Pearl Harbor?"
- Shikata ga nai
- Different kind of sand
- Common master plan
- Almost a family
- Whatever he did had flourish
- Fort Lincoln: an interview
- Inu
- Mess hall bells
- Reservoir shack: an aside
- Yes yes no no
- Manzanar, U.S.A.
- Outings, explorations
- In the firebreak
- Departures
- Free to go
- It's all starting over
- Ka-ke, near Hiroshima: April 1946
- Re-entry
- Double impulse
- Girl of my dreams
- Ten thousand voices.
- Notes:
- "A Bantam starfire book."
- Local Notes:
- The Balch Institute Library and Archives
- ISBN:
- 0553272586
- 9780553272581
- 0553106198
- 9780553106190
- 0553135295
- 9780553135299
- 9780606032032
- 0606032037
- OCLC:
- 30261617
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