Relocating Authority: Japanese Americans Writing to Redress Mass Incarceration

by Mira Shimabukuro

Relocating Authority examines the ways Japanese Americans have continually used writing to respond to the circumstances of their community's mass imprisonment during World War II. Using both Nikkei cultural frameworks and community-specific history for methodological inspiration and guidance, Mira Shimabukuro shows how writing was used privately and publicly to individually survive and collectively resist the conditions of incarceration.

Examining...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1607324008
• ISBN13: 9781607324003
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: University Press of Colorado
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up