Remembering Our Grandfathers’ Exile : : US Imprisonment of Hawai‘i’s Japanese in World War II / / Gail Y. Okawa.
When author Gail Okawa was in high school in Honolulu, a neighbor mentioned that her maternal grandfather had been imprisoned in a World War II concentration camp on the US mainland. Questioning her parents, she learned only that “he came back a changed man.” Years later, as an adult salvaging that...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 40 b&w illustrations, 4 maps |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Note on Names and Terminology
- Introduction. Unbundling
- Chapter 1. Discovering: A Personal and Community Recovery Project
- Chapter 2. The Fate of the “Wingless Birds” I: Issei Immigration, Prewar Lives, Seizure and Arrest
- Chapter 3. The Fate of the “Wingless Birds” II: Issei Hearings, Internment, Exile
- Chapter 4. In Exile I: The Journey, a Captive Life, and Issei Resistance
- Chapter 5. In Exile II: Battling “Barbed Wire Disease”: Strategies for Survival and Resistance
- Chapter 6. In Exile III: Literacy and Surviving Captivity
- Chapter 7. Compounded Ironies I: “Alien Enemy” Fathers, American Patriot Sons
- Chapter 8. Compounded Ironies II: Advocacy in Death and Life
- Chapter 9. Return from Exile and Rebundling
- Epilogue. Santa Feans: From the World beyond the Barbed Wire
- Notes
- References
- Index
- About the Author