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The spectacle of Japanese American trauma : racial performativity and World War II / Emily Roxworthy

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Author:
Roxworthy, Emily  Search this
Physical description:
viii, 231 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
2008
C2008
20th century
Contents:
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
World War, 1939-1945  Search this
Internment camps--Psychological aspects  Search this
Ethnic relations  Search this
History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_990750