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Author Oikawa, Mona, 1955-

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

Publication Info. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (493 pages).
text file
Series Studies in gender and history
Studies in gender and history.
Note Description based upon print version of record.
Summary Disturbing and provocative, <em>Cartographies of Violence</em> explores Japanese-Canadian women's memories in order to map the effects of forced displacements, incarcerations, and the separations of family, friends, and communities.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-434) 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.'
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Subject Forced Removal and Internment of Japanese (Canada : 1942-1945)
Japanese -- Canada -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Japanese.
Canada.
Social conditions.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Women -- Canada -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Women.
Japanese -- Canada -- Interviews.
Genre/Form Interviews.
Subject Women -- Canada -- Interviews.
Japanese -- Canada -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945.
Japanese Canadians -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Genre/Form Interviews.
Other Form: Print version: Oikawa, Mona Cartographies of Violence : Japanese Canadian Women, Memory, and the Subjects of the Internment Toronto : University of Toronto Press,c2011 9780802096012
ISBN 9781442664302
1442664304
9780802099013
0802099017
9780802096012
0802096018