Overview

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 of these processes for some Japanese Canadian women. Using critical race, feminist, anti-colonial, and cultural geographic theory, Mona Oikawa deconstructs prevalent images, stereotypes, and language used to describe the 'Internment' in ways that masks its inherent violence. explores women's memories in order to map the effects of forced displacements, incarcerations, and the separations of family, friends, and communities.

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Author:   Mona Oikawa
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 3.70cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.860kg
ISBN:  

9780802099013

ISBN 10:   0802099017
Pages:   492
Publication Date:   18 September 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgements 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"

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'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

'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

Author Information

Mona Oikawa is an associate professor in the Department of Equity Studies at York University.

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