Cartographies of violence : Japanese Canadian women, memory, and the subjects of the internment
2012
Book
"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 effects of these processes for some Japanese Canadian women. Using critical race, feminist, anti-colonial, and cultural geographic theory, Mona Oikawa deconstructs prevalent images, stereotypes, and language used to describe the 'Internment' in ways that masks its inherent violence. Through interviews with women survivors and their daughters, Oikawa analyses recurring themes of racism and resistance, as well as the struggle to communicate what happened. Disturbing and provocative, Cartographies of Violence explores women's memories in order to map the effects of forced displacements, incarcerations, and the separations of family, friends, and communities."--Publisher's website.
Item Details
ISBN: 9780802096012
Description: xvii, 457 p., [12] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
- Canadiana.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
- 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.'
Control Number: 976081
Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2012.Series:
Subjects:
- Canada -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
- Collective memory -- Canada.
- Japanese Canadian women -- Interviews.
- Japanese Canadian women -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
- Japanese Canadians -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945.
- Women concentration camp inmates -- Canada -- Interviews.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Canada.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- Canada.