Voices Beyond the Grave : Japanese Internment in the French Pacific.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ireland, Benjamin Hiramatsu.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 2026.

Summary:

Voices Beyond the Grave uncovers critically understudied histories of Japanese internment and labor diasporas in the French Pacific.After the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, French colonial authorities, following Charles de Gaulle's orders, detained over a thousand Japanese civilians residing across French-Pacific island territories and deported.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction: Toward a Francophone Transpacific

Chapter One: Global Configurations of Power: Japanese Internments Across the French Pacific

Chapter Two. The Japanese in New Caledonia

Chapter Three. A Japanese Trojan Horse?: Reading the Colonial Shadow Archive

Chapter Four. Families Left Behind: Mixed-Race Citizenship Laws and the US Presence

Chapter Five. From Nouville to Australia: Paths to Deportation and Internment

Chapter Six. Voices Beyond the Grave: Letters from Australian Internment Camps and Japan

Chapter Seven. Loved from Afar: Repatriation and Nippo-Kanak Futures

Conclusion: Constellations of Healing

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Ireland, Benjamin Hiramatsu Voices Beyond the Grave

ISBN:

9798880701445

OCLC:

1581931963