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Letters to Memory

by Karen Tei Yamashita
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An excursion through the Japanese-American internment using archival materials from the author's own family.

In this unique memoir, Karen Tei Yamashita draws on her family's history and creates a series of epistolary conversations with composite characters representing a range of academic specialties. Historians, anthropologists, classicists—their disciplines, and Yamashita's engagement with them, are a way for her explore various aspects of the internment and to expand its meaning beyond her family, and our borders, to ideas of debt, forgiveness, civil rights, and community. From a National Book Award finalist, Letters to Memory is "in moments deeply personal and impressionistic and in moments pulling back into a voice of epic omniscience" (The Boston Globe).

"Interrogates the cruelty of internment and the random nature of immigration, war, birth and death and disease through her own probing, lively correspondence . . . The irony and dark humor of Yamashita's interrogations, of her nimble prose and sentences, illuminate the tragedies." —Los Angeles Times
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Publisher: Coffee House Press

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  • Release date: November 1, 2018

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  • ISBN: 9781566894982
  • Release date: November 1, 2018

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  • ISBN: 9781566894982
  • File size: 57374 KB
  • Release date: November 1, 2018
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Biography & Autobiography Multi-Cultural Sociology Nonfiction

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An excursion through the Japanese-American internment using archival materials from the author's own family.

In this unique memoir, Karen Tei Yamashita draws on her family's history and creates a series of epistolary conversations with composite characters representing a range of academic specialties. Historians, anthropologists, classicists—their disciplines, and Yamashita's engagement with them, are a way for her explore various aspects of the internment and to expand its meaning beyond her family, and our borders, to ideas of debt, forgiveness, civil rights, and community. From a National Book Award finalist, Letters to Memory is "in moments deeply personal and impressionistic and in moments pulling back into a voice of epic omniscience" (The Boston Globe).

"Interrogates the cruelty of internment and the random nature of immigration, war, birth and death and disease through her own probing, lively correspondence . . . The irony and dark humor of Yamashita's interrogations, of her nimble prose and sentences, illuminate the tragedies." —Los Angeles Times
Expand title description text
Biography & Autobiography Multi-Cultural Sociology Nonfiction