Introduction. Staging the Trauma of Japanese American Internment -- 1. "A Race of Ingenious Marionettes": Theatricalizing the Japanese, 1853-1946 -- 2. Spectacularizing Japanese American Suspects: The Genealogy of the FBI's Post-Pearl Harbor Raids -- 3. Performative Citizenship and Anti-Japanese Melodrama: The Mass Media Construction of Home Front Nationalism -- 4. "Manzanar, the Eyes of the World Are upon You": Internee Performance and Archival Ambivalence -- 5. Transnational Theatre at the Tule Lake Segregation Center
Summary:
"In The Spectacle of Japanese American Trauma, Emily Roxworthy contests the notion that the U.S. government's internment policies during World War II had little impact on the postwar lives of most Japanese Americans. After the curtain was lowered on the war following the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, many Americans behaved as if the "theatre of war" had ended and life could return to normal. Roxworthy demonstrates that this theatrical logic of segregating the real from the staged, the authentic experience from the political display, grew out of the manner in which internment was agitated for and instituted by the U.S. government and media.
During the war, Japanese Americans struggled to define themselves within the web of this theatrical logic, and they continue to reenact this trauma in public and private to this day."--BOOK JACKET.
Topic:
Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 Search this
World War, 1939-1945--Mass media and the war Search this
World War, 1939-1945--Psychological aspects Search this