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Farewell to Manzanar, a true story of Japanese American experience during and after the World War II internment, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston

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Farewell to Manzanar, a true story of Japanese American experience during and after the World War II internment, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Farewell to Manzanar

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

857064242

Responsibility statement

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston

Sub title

a true story of Japanese American experience during and after the World War II internment

Summary

During World War II a community called Manzanar was hastily created in the high mountain desert country of California, east of the Sierras. Its purpose was to house thousands of Japanese American internees. One of the first families to arrive was the Wakatsukis, who were ordered to leave their fishing business in Long Beach and take with them only the belongings they could carry. For Jeanne Wakatsuki, a seven-year-old child, Manzanar became a way of life in which she struggled and adapted, observed and grew. For her father it was essentially the end of his life. At age thirty-seven, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston recalls life at Manzanar through the eyes of the child she was. She tells of her fear, confusion, and bewilderment as well as the dignity and great resourcefulness of people in oppressive and demeaning circumstances. Written with her husband, Jeanne delivers a powerful first-person account that reveals her search for the meaning of Manzanar. Farewell to Manzanar has become a staple of curriculum in schools and on campuses across the country. Last year the San Francisco Chronicle named it one of the twentieth century's 100 best nonfiction books from west of the Rockies

Table Of Contents

""Front Cover""; ""Front Flap""; ""Front Matter""; ""Half Title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""A Chronology""; ""Terms Used in This Book""; ""Epigraph ""; ""Part 1 ""; ""1. ""What Is Pearl Harbor?""""; ""2. Shikata Ga Nai ""; ""3. A Different Kind of Sand ""; ""4. A Common Master Plan ""; ""5. Almost a Family ""; ""6. Whatever He Did Had Flourish ""; ""7. Fort Lincoln: An Interview ""; ""8. Inu ""; ""9. The Mess Hall Bells ""; ""10. The Reservoir Shack: An Aside ""; ""11. Yes Yes No No ""; ""Part 2 ""; ""12. Manzanar, U.S.A. """"13. Outings, Explorations """"14. In the Firebreak ""; ""15. Departures ""; ""16. Free to Go ""; ""17. It's All Starting Over ""; ""18. Ka-ke, Near Hiroshima: April 1946 ""; ""19. Re-entry ""; ""20. A Double Impulse ""; ""21. The Girl of My Dreams ""; ""Part 3 ""; ""22. Ten Thousand Voices ""; ""Back Matter""; ""Afterword""

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