From Okinawa to the Americas : : Hana Yamagawa and Her Reminiscences of a Century / / Hana Yamagawa; ed. by Akiko Yamagawa Hibbett.

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• VerfasserIn: Yamagawa, Hana,
• HerausgeberIn: Hibbett, Akiko Yamagawa,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2010]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Intersections: Asian and Pacific American Transcultural Studies ; 36
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.) :; 9 illus.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; I: Tethered by a Silken Thread --; Childhood --; School Years --; Victory Celebration --; Growing Up --; Marriage --; II: Go, My Lucky Child --; Contract Labor --; Lima --; Yamagawa Kitaro --; III: On The Ship Of Good Fortune --; Imperial Valley --; Los Angeles --; The World War II Years --; Los Angeles Again --; IV: And Return --; Tethered By A Silken Thread --; Afterword --; Notes --; Selected Bibliography
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780824860950; 9783110564143; 9783110663259
• DOI: 10.1515/9780824860950
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Hana Yamagawa; ed. by Akiko Yamagawa Hibbett.

Between 1889 and 1940 more than 40,000 Okinawan contract laborers emigrated to plantations in Hawaii, Brazil, the Philippines, and Peru. In 1912 seventeen-year-old Hana Kaneshi accompanied her husband and brother to South America and dreamed of returning home in two years’ time a wealthy young woman. Edited by her daughter Akiko, Hana’s richly detailed memoir is a rare, first-hand account of the life of a female Okinawan immigrant in the New World. It spans nearly a century, from Hana’s early life in a small village not long after the Ryukyu Kingdom’s annexation to Japan; to a sugar plantation in Peru and its capital, Lima; to her dangerous trek through Mexico and the California desert to enter the U.S. and start a new life, this time in the Imperial Valley and finally Los Angeles. Hana’s story comes full circle when she returns briefly, after forty-seven years, to Okinawa during the postwar American Occupation.From Okinawa to the Americas will appeal to not only students of Asian American and disapora studies, but also those seeking to understand the complexity of Okinawan culture and the networks of family relationships in Okinawa and in its overseas immigrant communities.