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Book SynopsisDisturbing 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.
Trade Review'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.' -- Jordan Stanger-Ross BC Studies April 2013 'Cartographies of Violence demands attention, provokes reflection, and is sure to generate response.' -- Jordan Stanger-Ross BC Studies number 182: summer 2014
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Dedication Preface Introduction * 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 Subject(s) of the Internment: The B.C. Interior Cases * Economies of the Carceral: The "Self-Support" Camps, Sugar Beet Farms, and Domestic Work * The Known and Unknown: Communities Lost, Communities Remembered *"It's 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 Subject(s) of the "Internment" Bibliography
