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“Beyond Railroads and Internment”? Japanese American Wartime Incarceration Literature and the Foundations of Asian American Literary Studies

Magosaki, Rei

American literature, 2024-03, Vol.96 (1), p.85-112 [Periódico revisado por pares]

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“Beyond Railroads and Internment”? Japanese American Wartime Incarceration Literature and the Foundations of Asian American Literary Studies
Autor: Magosaki, Rei
Assuntos: American literature ; Asian American literature ; Colonialism ; Corpus analysis ; Literary criticism ; Mass incarceration ; World War II
É parte de: American literature, 2024-03, Vol.96 (1), p.85-112
Descrição: Abstract This article sees post–World War II wartime incarceration literature as a multigenerational corpus and reassesses the handling of this material in Asian American literary criticism and cultural analysis. As a way of addressing the expanding corpus of wartime incarceration literature, which includes generations of descendant writers, the article proposes a cognitive mapping of the ten major spaces of Japanese American Wartime Relocation Authority (WRA) mass incarceration sites, which were built in spatial overlap or in geographic proximity to Native American historic sites of violent conflict and confrontation throughout the nineteenth century. It argues for the centrality of this intergenerational Japanese American corpus in Asian American and US literary and cultural studies, anchored as the body of work is in the historical trajectories of US imperialism and settler colonialism.
Editor: Durham: Duke University Press, NC & IL
Idioma: Inglês

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