The spectacle of Japanese American trauma : racial performativity and World War II

The spectacle of Japanese American trauma : racial performativity and World War II /

"In The Spectacle of Japanese American Trauma, Emily Roxworthy contests the notion that the U.S. government's internment policies during World War II had little impact on the postwar lives of most Japanese Americans. After the curtain was lowered on the war following the bombings of Hirosh...

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Main Author: Roxworthy, Emily (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʼi Press, ©2008.
Subjects:
1900 - 1999
Japanese Americans > Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945.
World War, 1939-1945 > Mass media and the war.
World War, 1939-1945 > Psychological aspects.
World War, 1939-1945 > United States.
Internment camps > United States > Psychological aspects.
HISTORY > Military > World War II.
Internment camps > Psychological aspects
Ethnic relations
Mass media and war
Psychological aspects
Weltkrieg > 1939-1945
United States > Ethnic relations > History > 20th century.
États-Unis > Relations interethniques > Histoire > 20e siècle.
United States
USA
Japaner.
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Staging the Trauma of Japanese American Internment
  • 1. "A Race of Ingenious Marionettes": Theatricalizing the Japanese, 1853-1946
  • 2. Spectacularizing Japanese American Suspects: The Genealogy of the FBI's Post-Pearl Harbor Raids
  • 3. Performative Citizenship and Anti-Japanese Melodrama: The Mass Media Construction of Home Front Nationalism
  • 4. "Manzanar, the Eyes of the World Are upon You": Internee Performance and Archival Ambivalence
  • 5. Transnational Theatre at the Tule Lake Segregation Center.

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