Join The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration editors Frank Abe and Floyd Cheung for a discussion moderated by Brian Niiya and readings from the new anthology by audiobook performers, Keone Young, Ren Hanami, and traci kato-kiriyama.

About the book

This anthology recovers and reframes the literature produced by former incarcerees and their descendants, creating a shared story of the struggle to retain personal integrity in the face of increasing dehumanization—all anchored by the key government documents that incite the action. Fiction, poetry, essays, memoirs, and letters favor the pointed over the poignant, and the unknown over the familiar, with several new translations among previously unseen works that have been overlooked on the shelf, buried in the archives, or languished unread in the Japanese language. Together they form an epic narrative with a singular vision of America’s past, one with disturbing resonances with the American present.
 

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