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

by Mona Oikawa

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802096018
• ISBN13: 9780802096012
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 8.9"