Tadaima! I Am Home : : A Transnational Family History / / Tom Coffman; ed. by David K. Yoo, Russell Leong.
Tadaima! I Am Home unearths the five-generation history of a family that migrated from Hiroshima to Honolulu but never settled. In the telling, the common Japanese greeting "tadaima!" takes on a perplexing meaning. What is home? Where most immigrants either establish roots in a new place o...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Intersections: Asian and Pacific American Transcultural Studies ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (176 p.) :; 30 b&w illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF NAMES
- PREFACE
- PART I The Ancestors
- CHAPTER ONE. A Samurai's Journey to Hawai'i
- CHAPTER TWO. The Merchant's Story
- PART II Between
- CHAPTER THREE. Turning a Profit
- CHAPTER FOUR. Interned by the USA
- CHAPTER FIVE. Traded to Japan
- PART III In Japan
- CHAPTER SIX. Coming of Age in Hiroshima
- CHAPTER SEVEN. A Schoolboy's Diary
- CHAPTER EIGHT. The Explosion of Home
- PART IV Home
- CHAPTER NINE. Tadaima in America
- EPILOGUE
- NOTES
- SOURCES
- INDEX