Japanese (Post)-Internment Narratives
This chapter examines a series of novels authored by the Japanese-American writer Julie Otsuka who addresses the Japanese Relocation Camp experiences during World War II. Based on her family’s real internment experiences, Otsuka evocatively recalls the sa
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Trauma, Precarity and War Memories in Asian American Writings “Jade Tsui-yu Lee did a fine job with a complex subject.” —Stephen Ohlander, Professor, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan “With a consistent theme, the work has depth and gravity.” —Yu-cheng Lee, Adjunct Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academic Sinica, Taiwan
Jade Tsui-yu Lee
Trauma, Precarity and War Memories in Asian American Writings
Jade Tsui-yu Lee National Kaohsiung Normal University Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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Preface
Departing from Jacques Derrida’s appropriations of cinders as a trope of war atrocity aftermath, this book will examine writings that deal with war trauma memories in Asian-American communities. Seeing war experiences and their associative diasporas and affects as the core and axis, this book hopes to address the multifarious poetics and politics of minority trauma writings and posit a possible interpretive framework for contemporary Asian-American writings, including those written by Julie Otsuka, Joseph Craig Danner, Monique Truong, Nguyen Viet Thanh, Janice Lowe Shinebourne, and André Lamontagne. As the writings in questions contain works regarding Japanese American, Indo-Chinese Guyanese, Chinese Quebeçois, Vietnamese exiles/refugees, and Vietnam-American experiences, this book is expected to present a broader view on migration and minority issues triggered by wars and precarious
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