The Spectacle of Japanese American Trauma : : Racial Performativity and World War II /

The Spectacle of Japanese American Trauma : : Racial Performativity and World War II / / Emily Roxworthy.

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 Hiroshima an...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Roxworthy, Emily,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 13 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER 1. "A Race of Ingenious Marionettes" Theatricalizing the Japanese, 1853-1946
  • CHAPTER 2. Spectacularizing Japanese American Suspects The Genealogy of the FBI's Post-Pearl Harbor Raids
  • CHAPTER 3. Performative Citizenship and Anti-Japanese Melodrama The Mass Media Construction of Home Front Nationalism
  • CHAPTER 4. "Manzanar, the Eyes of the World Are upon You" Internee Performance and Archival Ambivalence
  • CHAPTER 5. Transnational Theatre at the Tule Lake Segregation Center
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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