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

Mona Oikawa

Published by University of Toronto Press 2012

Cartographies of Violence

Japanese Canadian Women, Memory, and the Subjects of the Internment

Mona Oikawa

In the series Studies in Gender and History

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442664302

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About this book

Disturbing and provocative, Cartographies of Violence explores Japanese-Canadian women's memories in order to map the effects of forced displacements, incarcerations, and the separations of family, friends, and communities.

Author / Editor information

Oikawa Mona :

Mona Oikawa is an associate professor in the Department of Equity Studies at York University.

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Jordan Stanger-Ross:
‘Cartographies of Violence demands attention, provokes reflection, and is sure to generate response.’

Jordan Stanger-Ross:

‘This is an important and serious contribution to the scholarship on a topic of vital significance. Cartographies of Violence demands attention, provokes reflection, and is sure to generate response.’

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xv
Maps Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xviii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
1. The Forgetting Subjects and the Subjects Forgotten Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
2. The Silencing Continues: ‘Speaking for’ Japanese Canadian Subjects of the Internment Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
3. Method, Memory, and the Subjects of the Internment Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
4. Cartographies of Violence: Creating Carceral Spaces and Expelling Japanese Canadians from the Nation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
5. Gendering the Subjects of the Internment: The Interior Camps of British Columbia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
6. Economies of the Carceral: The ‘Self- Support’ Camps, Sugar Beet Farms, and Domestic Work Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
7. The Known and Unknown: Subjects Lost, Subjects Re-membered Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
8. ‘It Is Part of My Inheritance’: Handing Down Memory of the Internment Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	226
9. ‘Crushing the White Wall with Our Names’: Re-membering the Internment in White Spaces Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
10. Conclusion: Re-membering the Subjects of the ‘Internment’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	403
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	435
STUDIES IN GENDER AND HISTORY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	459

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 492

eBook

Published: November 8, 2012
ISBN: 9781442664302