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Genre/Form: | Personal Narrative Autobiography Biographies Personal narratives Autobiographies Récits personnels Biography Personal narratives, American |
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Named Person: | Yoshiko Uchida; Yoshiko Uchida |
Material Type: | Biography, Government publication, State or province government publication |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Yoshiko Uchida |
ISBN: | 9780295994758 0295994754 |
OCLC Number: | 899114095 |
Notes: | Originally published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 1982. |
Description: | xxii, 156 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
Contents: | Introduction to the 2015 edition -- The house above Grove Street -- On being Japanese and American -- Pearl Harbor -- Evacuation -- Tanforan : a horse stall for four -- Tanforan : city behind barbed wire -- Topaz : city of dust -- Topaz : winter's despair -- Epilogue. |
Series Title: | Classics of Asian American literature. |
Responsibility: | Yoshiko Uchida ; with a new introduction by Traise Yamamoto. |
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A sensitive, readable account that captures with insight and human warmth the feel of what it was like to be sent by one's own government into exile in the wilderness. It is a work worthy of an unforgettable experience. * Pacific Citizen * In Desert Exile the happy life of a Japanese American family before [being removed to a] concentration camp makes their surrealist nightmare experience after December 7, 1941, all the more inexplicable and horrifying. * San Francisco Review of Books * Desert Exile is a beautifully written personal history. . . . Uchida's intention was to illuminate the Issei and Nisei internment experience on a personal level for the benefit of later generations. She has succeeded. * Western Historical Quarterly * Read more...


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