{"product_id":"i-call-to-remembrance-toyo-suyemotos-years-of-internment-paperback-softback-9780813540726","title":"I Call to Remembrance; Toyo Suyemoto's Years of Internment (Paperback \/ softback) 9780813540726","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eI Call to Remembrance\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eToyo Suyemoto's Years of Internment\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eToyo Suyemoto (Author), Susan B. Richardson (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813540726\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 13 July 2007\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages, 50\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.34 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThis illuminating and moving memoir adds to the literature of internment by providing invaluable insight into how the raw facts of governmental decisions are perceived and experienced by the subjects of those decisions. Most importantly, Toyo Suyemoto shows us how it is possible, under conditions of duress and degradation, to retain one's dignity, compassion, and imagination.\u003c\/div\u003e - Traise Yamamoto (associate professor of English, University of California, Riverside)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eToyo Suyemoto is known informally by literary scholars and the media as \"Japanese America's poet laureate.\" But Suyemoto has always described herself in much more humble terms. A first-generation Japanese American, she has identified herself as a storyteller, a teacher, a mother whose only child died from illness, and an internment camp survivor. Before Suyemoto passed away in 2003, she wrote a moving and illuminating memoir of her internment camp experiences with her family and infant son at Tanforan Race Track and, later, at the Topaz Relocation Center in Utah, from 1942 to 1945.\u003cp\u003eA uniquely poetic contribution to the small body of internment memoirs, Suyemoto's account includes information about policies and wartime decisions that are not widely known, and recounts in detail the way in which internees adjusted their notions of selfhood and citizenship, lending insight to the complicated and controversial questions of citizenship, accountability, and resistance of first- and second-generation Japanese Americans.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSuyemoto's poems, many written during internment, are interwoven throughout the text and serve as counterpoints to the contextualizing narrative. Suyemoto's poems, many written during internment, are interwoven throughout the text and serve as counterpoints to the contextualizing narrative. A small collection of poems written in the years following her incarceration further reveal the psychological effects of her experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eBerkeley\u003cbr\u003e April 1942\u003cbr\u003e Morning of departure\u003cbr\u003e Growing up in Nihonmachi\u003cbr\u003e Intake at Tanforan\u003cbr\u003e Tanforan days\u003cbr\u003e Tanforan High School\u003cbr\u003e Kay's illness\u003cbr\u003e Another move\u003cbr\u003e Entry into Topaz\u003cbr\u003e Settling in\u003cbr\u003e As 1942 Ended\u003cbr\u003e Block 4-8-E\u003cbr\u003e Schooling in Topaz\u003cbr\u003e Topaz Public Library\u003cbr\u003e Sensei\u003cbr\u003e Into another year\u003cbr\u003e Registration for loyalty\u003cbr\u003e Weighed in the balance\u003cbr\u003e We be brethren\u003cbr\u003e In the length of days\u003cbr\u003e The dust before the wind\u003cbr\u003e The Dispersal\u003cbr\u003e Tree of the People (Topaz community)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52559285682456,"sku":"9780813540726","price":25.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/i-call-to-remembrance-toyo-suyemotos-years-of-internment-paperback-softback-9780813540726","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}