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Revisiting the Canon: A Review of Frank Abe and Floyd Cheung's anthology The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration

In 2022, I received an email from my friend Frank Abe, informing me that he and Floyd Cheung had …

Jonathan van Harmelen • Oct. 21, 2024

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Narratives of Resilience and Resistance—Frank Abe and Floyd Cheung on The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration — Part 2

Read Part 1 Jonathan van Harmelen (JVH): One thing I noticed about the government edicts is that …

Jonathan van Harmelen • Oct. 8, 2024

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Narratives of Resilience and Resistance—Frank Abe and Floyd Cheung on The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration — Part 1

In May 2024, Penguin Classics published The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration. Edited…

Jonathan van Harmelen • Oct. 7, 2024

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Catching Up with Journalist and Author Gene Oishi about In Search of Hiroshi, a Groundbreaking Memoir in Its Exploration in the Psychological Analysis of Nisei Identity

An outstanding and innovative Nisei writer, Gene Oishi, has movingly portrayed the trauma of the wa…

Jonathan van Harmelen • May 17, 2024

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Part 45: Interview with Mr. Maeda, the translator of "Darkness" - Part 3

Juliet Kono's novel "Darkness" depicts a Hawaii-born second-generation Japanese-American woman surv…

Ryusuke Kawai • March 22, 2024

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African American images on a Nikkei Canvas: Black Characters in Japanese American Literature - Part 4

Read Part 3 >> For the next twenty years, there was little in the way of Japanese American liter…

Greg Robinson +1 • Feb. 13, 2022

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African American images on a Nikkei Canvas: Black Characters in Japanese American Literature - Part 3

Read Part 2 >> Throughout the postwar years, up until the late 1960s and 1970s, there was a relati…

Greg Robinson +1 • Feb. 6, 2022

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African American images on a Nikkei Canvas: Black Characters in Japanese American Literature - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> The coming of World War II and the mass confinement of West Coast Japanese American…

Greg Robinson +1 • Jan. 30, 2022

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African American images on a Nikkei Canvas: Black Characters in Japanese American Literature - Part 1

It is a commonplace that the presence and contributions of racial minorities have been too long and…

Greg Robinson +1 • Jan. 23, 2022

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From a Japanese American Literature Class at a German University

"Yokohama, California" – Toshio Mori

The ideals behind one of the most famous phrases in the United States’ Declaration of Independence,…

Latifa Maazouz • Nov. 10, 2010

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