Letters to memory

By Karen Tei Yamashita

Subjects: History / united states / 20th century, Social science / ethnic studies / asian american studies, Biography, Japanese americans, fiction, Japanese americans, Bio002000 his036060 soc043000 bio026000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, Fiction, historical, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies, 813/.54, Japanese americans--evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945, Japanese americans--fiction, Evacuation and relocation of Japanese Americans (United States : 1942-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01801850, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, Biography & autobiography / cultural heritage, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage, Evacuation and relocation of japanese americans (united states : 1942-1945), Fiction, Japanese Americans, Japanese americans--evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945--fiction, United states, fiction, Ps3575.a44 s35 2017, History, Fiction, biographical, Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945, Biography & autobiography / personal memoirs

Description: Letters to Memory is an excursion through the Japanese internment using archival materials from the Yamashita family as well as a series of epistolary conversations with composite characters representing a range of academic specialties. Historians, anthropologists, classicists--their disciplines, and Yamashita's engagement with them, are a way for her to explore various aspects of the internment and to expand its meaning beyond her family, and our borders, to ideas of debt, forgiveness, civil rights, orientalism, and community-- Publisher's website.