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

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Label

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

Title remainder

racial performativity and World War II

Statement of responsibility

Emily Roxworthy

Creator

• Roxworthy, Emily

Subject

• Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
• Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945
• United States -- Ethnic relations | History -- 20th century
• Internment camps -- United States -- Psychological aspects
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Psychological aspects
• World War, 1939-1945 -- United States
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Mass media and the war

Language

eng

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

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

940.53/1773

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

D769.8.A6

LC item number

R68 2008

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography