Julie Otsuka’s commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any we have ever seen. With crystalline intensity and precision, Otsuka uses a single family to evoke the deracination—both physical and emotional—of a generation of Japanese Americans. In five chapt...
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Kansas, were constructed at various outposts throughout the U.S. A third of the world's population was infected, and at least 50 million died (675,000 in the U.S. alone)—making the Spanish flu among thedeadliest outbreaks in human history. This iconic ...
Julie Otsuka's commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any we have ever seen. With crystalline intensity and precision, Otsuka uses a single family to evoke the deracination--both physical and emotional--of a generation of Japanese Americans. In five chap...
Perspective: Moving on with the New BBC Supremo; Mark Thompson Took over as Director General of the BBC in June at a Time When the Corporation Was at Its Lowest Ebb and Facing the Twin Hurdles of the 2006 Charter Renewal and Healing the Bruises of the Hutton Saga. in Birmingham for the...
Finally, don't be intimidated by the weight of history. Images of warehoused children and broken-hearted parents are reminiscent of Nazi Germany and the internment of Japanese Americans, a haunting and overwhelming visual echo. It can be tempting to pretend as if we haven't arrived at a ...
In When the Emperor was Divine, a Japanese-American family of four has been irrevocably harmed by a government order that sent the father to prison and the mother, son, and daughter to an internment camp where they lived under 24-hour monitoring and almost ... (展开) 1 0回应 genfeng...
Q. But we’ve seen the federal government curtail the public before, notably during World War II when people of Japanese descent, including U.S. citizens, were put into internment camps. Wasn’t that the same? A. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt used an executive order that designated ce...
Yesterday was the day we Americans “officially” count our blessings, and give thanks for all we have. That’s not easy for some this year. Empty chairs, long distances that are harder than ever to travel, frustrations of all kinds, seem to be larger and more numerous. But, still we ...
Q. But we’ve seen the federal government curtail the public before, notably during World War II when people of Japanese descent, including US citizens, were put into internment camps. Wasn’t that the same? A. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt used an executive order that designated c...