Description
Book SynopsisToyo Suyemoto is known informally by literary scholars and the media as ""Japanese America's poet laureate."" This work presents an account of Suyemoto, which includes information about policies and wartime decisions, and recounts the way in which internees adjusted their notions of selfhood and citizenship.
Trade ReviewThis illuminating and moving memoir adds to the literature of internment by providing invaluable insight into how the raw facts of governmental decisions are perceived and experienced by the subjects of those decisions. Most importantly, Toyo Suyemoto shows us how it is possible, under conditions of duress and degradation, to retain one's dignity, compassion, and imagination. -- Traise Yamamoto * associate professor of English, University of California, Riverside *
Table of ContentsBerkeley
April 1942
Morning of departure
Growing up in Nihonmachi
Intake at Tanforan
Tanforan days
Tanforan High School
Kay's illness
Another move
Entry into Topaz
Settling in
As 1942 Ended
Block 4-8-E
Schooling in Topaz
Topaz Public Library
Sensei
Into another year
Registration for loyalty
Weighed in the balance
We be brethren
In the length of days
The dust before the wind
The Dispersal
Tree of the People (Topaz community)
