Umfang:
Online-Ressource (xlvi, 208 p)
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ill
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24 cm
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0813540720
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9780813540726
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9780813540719
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0813540712
Inhalt:
Toyo Suyemoto is known informally by literary scholars and the media as "Japanese America's poet laureate." But Suyemoto has always described herself in much more humble terms. A U.S.-born Japanese American, she has identified herself as a storyteller, a teacher, a mother whose only child died from illness, and an internment camp survivor. Before her death in 2003, Suyemoto wrote a moving and illuminating memoir of her internment camp experiences with her family and infant son at Tanforan Race Track and, later, at the Topaz Relocation Center in Utah, from 1942 to 1945. A uniquely poetic c
Inhalt:
Toyo Suyemoto is known informally by literary scholars and the media as "Japanese America's poet laureate." But Suyemoto has always described herself in much more humble terms. A U.S.-born Japanese American, she has identified herself as a storyteller, a teacher, a mother whose only child died from illness, and an internment camp survivor. Before her death in 2003, Suyemoto wrote a moving and illuminating memoir of her internment camp experiences with her family and infant son at Tanforan Race Track and, later, at the Topaz Relocation Center in Utah, from 1942 to 1945. A uniquely poetic contri
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-208)
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Contents; Editor's Preface; Note on the Drawings; Introduction; Author's Preface; Chapter 1: Berkeley; Chapter 2: April 1942; Chapter 3: Morning of Departure; Chapter 4: Growing up in Nihonmachi; Chapter 5: Intake at Tanforan; Chapter 6: Tanforan Days; Chapter 7: Tanforan High School; Chapter 8: Kay's Illness; Chapter 9: Another Move; Chapter 10: Entry into Topaz; Chapter 11: Settling In; Chapter 12: As 1942 Ended; Chapter 13: Block 4-8-E; Chapter 14: Schooling in Topaz; Chapter 15: Topaz Public Library; Chapter 16: Sensei; Chapter 17: Into Another Year; Chapter 18: Registration for Loyalty
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Chapter 19: Weighed in the BalanceChapter 20: We Be Brethren; Chapter 21: In the Length of Days; Chapter 22: The Dust Before the Wind; Chapter 23: The Dispersal; Chapter 24: Tree of the People (Topaz Community); Afterword; References; About the Editor
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780813540719
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe I Call to Remembrance : Toyo Suyemoto's Years of Internment
Sprache:
Englisch
