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Two Homelands / Toyoko Yamasaki.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2007]Copyright date: ©2007Description: 1 online resource (784 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780824829445
  • 9780824865344
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 895.635
LOC classification:
  • PL865.A59.F8413 2008eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Jap -- 2. Camp -- 3. Sandstorm -- 4. Nisei -- 5. A Test Of Humanity -- 6. The U.S. Army -- 7. Blood Proof -- 8. The Pacific -- 9. Two Battlefields -- 10. Brothers -- 11. Nippon -- 12. Monitor -- 13. Family -- 15. Pearl Harbor I -- 16. Pearl Harbor Ii -- 17. Washington Heights -- 18. Masked Court -- 19 Tojo -- 20. No More -- 21. Death By Hanging -- 22. Good-Bye -- Author'S Note On The Translation And Acknowledgments -- About The Author -- About The Translator
Summary: Two Homelands (Futatsu no sokoku) tells the powerful story of three brothers during the years surrounding World War II. From the attack on Pearl Harbor to the Pacific War, relocation to Manzanar, the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, and the Tokyo war crimes trials, we follow the lives of Kenji, Tadashi, and Isamu Amo, the California-born sons of Japanese immigrants. The eldest, Kenji, must grapple with what it means to belong to two nations at war with one another and to face betrayal by both. Tadashi, in school in Japan when war breaks out, is drafted into the Japanese army and renounces his U.S. citizenship. Later Kenji and Tadashi find themselves on opposite sides of a battlefield in the Philippines; although they both survive the conflict, their relationship is destroyed by the war. Isamu, the youngest and the most thoroughly American of the brothers, loves John Wayne movies and gives his life to rescue the lost Texas battalion fighting in France. Popular Japanese novelist Toyoko Yamasaki spent five years interviewing Japanese-Americans and researching documentary sources to assemble the raw material for her book. Through the story of the Amo family, she forces readers to confront the meaning of "love of country" as her characters encounter prejudice and suspicion on both sides of the Pacific. Almost a quarter century after its Japanese publication, this English-language translation affords a valuable opportunity to understand the postwar reassessment of what it means to be Japanese in the modern world.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Jap -- 2. Camp -- 3. Sandstorm -- 4. Nisei -- 5. A Test Of Humanity -- 6. The U.S. Army -- 7. Blood Proof -- 8. The Pacific -- 9. Two Battlefields -- 10. Brothers -- 11. Nippon -- 12. Monitor -- 13. Family -- 15. Pearl Harbor I -- 16. Pearl Harbor Ii -- 17. Washington Heights -- 18. Masked Court -- 19 Tojo -- 20. No More -- 21. Death By Hanging -- 22. Good-Bye -- Author'S Note On The Translation And Acknowledgments -- About The Author -- About The Translator

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Two Homelands (Futatsu no sokoku) tells the powerful story of three brothers during the years surrounding World War II. From the attack on Pearl Harbor to the Pacific War, relocation to Manzanar, the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, and the Tokyo war crimes trials, we follow the lives of Kenji, Tadashi, and Isamu Amo, the California-born sons of Japanese immigrants. The eldest, Kenji, must grapple with what it means to belong to two nations at war with one another and to face betrayal by both. Tadashi, in school in Japan when war breaks out, is drafted into the Japanese army and renounces his U.S. citizenship. Later Kenji and Tadashi find themselves on opposite sides of a battlefield in the Philippines; although they both survive the conflict, their relationship is destroyed by the war. Isamu, the youngest and the most thoroughly American of the brothers, loves John Wayne movies and gives his life to rescue the lost Texas battalion fighting in France. Popular Japanese novelist Toyoko Yamasaki spent five years interviewing Japanese-Americans and researching documentary sources to assemble the raw material for her book. Through the story of the Amo family, she forces readers to confront the meaning of "love of country" as her characters encounter prejudice and suspicion on both sides of the Pacific. Almost a quarter century after its Japanese publication, this English-language translation affords a valuable opportunity to understand the postwar reassessment of what it means to be Japanese in the modern world.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)