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Cartographies of Violence : Japanese Canadian Women, Memory, and the Subjects of the Internment /

"In 1942, the federal government expelled more than 22,000 Japanese Canadians from their homes in British Columbia. From 1942 to 1949, they were dispossessed, sent to incarceration sites, and dispersed across Canada. Over 4,000 were deported to Japan. Cartographies of Violence analyses the effe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Oikawa, Mona, 1955- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : University of Toronto Press, [2012]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The forgetting subjects and the subjects forgotten
  • The silencing continues : 'speaking for' Japanese Canadian subjects of the internment
  • Method, memory, and the subjects of the internment
  • Cartographies of violence : creating carceral spaces and expelling Japanese Canadians from the nation
  • Gendering the subjects of the internment : the interior camps of British Columbia
  • Economies of the carceral : the 'self-support' camps, sugar beet farms, and domestic work
  • The known and unknown : subjects lost, subjects remembered
  • 'It is part of my inheritance' : handing down memory of the internment
  • 'Crushing the white wall with our names' : re-membering the internment in white spaces
  • Conclusion : re-membering the subjects of the 'internment.'