Cartographies of violence [electronic resource] : Japanese Canadian women, memory, and the subjects of the internment / Mona Oikawa.

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"In 1942, the federal government expelled more than 22,000 Japanese Canadians from their homes in British Columbia. From 1942 to 1949, they were dispossessed, sent to incarceration sites, and dispersed across Canada. Over 4,000 were deported to Japan. Cartographies of Violence analyses the effects o...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Studies in gender and history.
Main Author: Oikawa, Mona, 1955-
Language:English
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2012.
Series:Studies in gender and history.
Subjects:
Japanese > Canada > Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945.
Japanese > Canada > Social conditions > 20th century.
Women > Canada > Social conditions > 20th century.
Japanese > Canada > Interviews.
Women > Canada > Interviews.
Women concentration camp inmates > Canada > Interviews.
Collective memory > Canada.
World War, 1939-1945 > Concentration camps > Canada.
World War, 1939-1945 > Social aspects > Canada.
Canada > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Genre:
Interviews.
Online Access:
EBSCO eBooks: 2012 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2012 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
Cartographies of Violence: Japanese Canadian Women, Memory, and the Subjects of the Internment
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • The forgetting subjects and the subjects forgotten
  • The silencing continues : "speaking for" Japanese Canadian subjects of the internment
  • Method, memory, and the subjects of the internment
  • Cartographies of violence : creating carceral spaces and expelling Japanese Canadians from the nation
  • Gendering the subjects of the internment : the interior camps of British Columbia
  • Economies of the carceral : the "self-support" camps, sugar beet farms, and domestic work
  • The known and unknown : subjects lost, subjects remembered
  • "It is part of my inheritance" : handing down memory of the internment
  • "Crushing the white wall with our names" : re-membering the internment in white spaces
  • Conclusion: Re-membering the subjects of the "internment."