Tadaima! I am home : a transnational family history /

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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Coffman, Tom (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2018]
Series:Intersections (Honolulu, Hawaii)
Subjects:
Miwa family.
Japanese Americans > Hawaii > Honolulu > Biography.
Transnationalism > Case studies.
Américains d'origine japonaise > Hawaii > Honolulu > Biographies.
Transnationalisme > Études de cas.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Personal Memoirs.
Emigration and immigration.
Japanese Americans.
Transnationalism.
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) > Emigration and immigration > Case studies.
Honolulu (Hawaii) > Emigration and immigration > Case studies.
Honolulu (Hawaii) > Émigration et immigration > Études de cas.
Hawaii > Honolulu.
Japan > Hiroshima-shi.
Biography
Biographies.
Case studies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A samurai's journey to Hawaiʻi
  • The merchant's story
  • Turning a profit
  • Interned by the USA
  • Traded to Japan
  • Coming of age in Hiroshima
  • A schoolboy's diary
  • The explosion of home
  • Tadaima in America.

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