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• W2319018365 abstract "Since the end of World War II and the release of over 120,000 interned Japanese Americans and 20,000 Japanese Canadians, a handful of novels and memoirs have been released detailing the lives of those whose lives were interrupted and whose experiences were silenced by their own governments. In this paper, John Okada’s No-No Boy, Joy Kogawa’s Obasan, and Julie Otsuka’s When the Emperor was Divine, written across sixty years and set during, immediately after, and two decades after the internment, will be analyzed according to their roles as important representations of the cultural memory of Japanese Americans and Canadians. The timeline of when these novels were written is linked to their individual roles within the community and among North American cultural history as a whole, which has largely chosen to view the war in more recognizable depictions of the war and has retained little to no visual record of the Japanese internment. These novels deal with the themes of identity, citizenship, family, loyalty, and closure, tying in the absence and loss of memories with the importance of intergenerational relationships within families and communities of Japanese Americans and Canadians. According to Marita Sturken in her analysis of a film created by the daughter of one of the internees, the destruction of culturally important memory items, silence of the generations living through the camps, and the ban on media capture of the internment have created a vacuum of cultural remembrance that these novels and the few personal accounts written after the internment attempt to fill. Rea Tajiri captures memories of her mother who never spoke about her time in the internment camp by recreating them, paralleling the role these three novels and their counterparts fit as they attempt to occupy the void of vocalized experiences with fictionalized representations in order to reconstruct the cultural memories shared by Japanese Americans and Canadians. After the events of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, over 120,000 Japanese Americans were relocated, as well as over 20,000 Japanese Canadians. Two-thirds of the Japanese relocated to internment camps were American citizens, the Nisei and Sansei, or second and thirdgeneration descendants of first-generation Japanese immigrants. Valerie Matsumoto gives a concise run of the facts for the internment in American War Relocation Authority camps, of which there were ten in seven different states located in largely desert areas of the West and Midwest. Japanese Americans were given only a short amount of time before they were forcibly removed, many of the community leaders having already been removed to specific camps for expected troublemakers or “enemy aliens.” Both American and Canadian Japanese were stripped of their citizenship and possessions, though Japanese Canadians were unable to return to the coastal area for years after the war, unlike Japanese Americans. Many repatriated to Japan after the war, but many more did not, and instead relocated after being released from internment camps. In this essay, I will examine three novels written across the half century after the end of World War II, each representing their own distinct visions of the experience of living with and recovering from the internment of Japanese Americans and Canadians. In the process of analyzing the novels, I will place them in the timeline of when they were written and attempt to discuss the significance of their publication and their use as examples of reconstructed representations of memory within the larger framework of the existence and absence of cultural memory about the internment of Japanese descendants and immigrants during World War II. How these fictionalized narratives interact with the possibilities of real yet absent portrayals of unrecorded lives will provide a basis for the argument of the importance of such portrayals in the absence of real accounts from those who lived the experiences being fictionalized. John Okada’s No-No Boy was largely ignored when it was first published in 1957. Okada’s book was deemed a failure during his lifetime, and he did not live to see the book become well-known among Asian American Studies scholars as it would after republication. The book was rediscovered and republished in the 1970s by the publishers Lawson Inada and Frank Chin, although not before Okada himself died of a heart attack at age 47 in 1971. While Okada’s personal account of the war differed in at least the crucial aspect of serving in the war, his description of the issues dealt with by the protagonist and other characters, such as the jarring racism and lack of support for reintegrating into society for both the no-no boys as well as Japanese American veterans, provides a powerful narrative novelization of Okada’s own experiences and the experiences of no-no boys, whom he researched and personally interviewed. No-No Boy follows Ichiro Yamada, a 25-year old Nisei youth, from the moment he steps off the bus in his hometown of Seattle, Washington just after being let out of two years of prison for refusing to serve in the army. Throughout the novel, Ichiro confronts his lack of identity and rediscovers fleeting moments of hope shared with him by a handful of other characters, both Japanese and white. Citizenship and instability of identity are themes Ichiro struggles with as he attempts to place himself in an America that imprisoned him for his actions and within a Japanese American community that largely rejects him for choosing inaction instead of joining his fellow young men in showing his patriotism and serving proudly in the war as many Japanese" @default.
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• W2319018365 title "Keeping the Memories Alive: Fictionalized Narratives of Japanese Internment in North America" @default.
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