Art Literature and the Japanese American Internment On John Okada s No No Boy 1st Edition by Thomas Girst ISBN 978-3631659373 3631659373

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ISBN 10:  3631659373

ISBN 13: 978-3631659373

Author: Thomas Girst 

How can art, how can prose and poetry originate in spite of the restraints of manipulation, propaganda, and censorship? This study explores such issues by focusing on the cultural trajectory of Japanese American internment, both during and after World War II. Previously unknown documents as well as interviews with friends and family reveal new aspects of John Okada’s (1923–1971) life and writing, providing a comprehensive biographical outline of the author. The book refutes the assumption that Okada’s novel No-No Boy was all but shunned when first published in 1957. A close reading as well as a comparative study involving Italo Calvino’s (1923–1985) Six Memos for the Next Millennium (1985) position Okada’s only book as world literature.

Table of contents: 

1. Artistic Expression and Internment

1.1. Isamu Noguchi

1.2. Miné Okubo

1.3. Camp Photography.

1.4. Prose and Poetry.

2. No-No Boys, Draft Resisters, and the Origins of Asian American Studies

3. John Okada, Writer and World War II Veteran.

4. Reading No-No Boy as World Literature.

5. Publication History, Reception, and Teaching of John Okada’s No-No Boy…

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