Fictional Representations of Japanese-Canadian Children in Internment During World War Two: Analysis of Five Texts
| Author: | Lei, Christine | |
| Year: | 2024 | |
| Pages: | 240 | |
| ISBN: | 1-4955-1273-8 978-1-4955-1273-5 | |
This is an 8.5 x 11 in. softcover book.
"It is necessary to expose thoroughly the traumatic effects of past POW experiences of minorities such as Asian Canadians in Canada so that no other minorities may suffer the same fate in the future. This is my main reason for initiating this research of Japanese-Canadian children's internment experiences in Canada. ...I have limited the fictional narratives in this study to Canadian literature, including two children's books and three adult novels. These five texts offer children's psychological traumatization from their POW experiences during World War II, as well as their cultural traumatization from legacies of the internment after the war.
"It is necessary to expose thoroughly the traumatic effects of past POW experiences of minorities such as Asian Canadians in Canada so that no other minorities may suffer the same fate in the future. This is my main reason for initiating this research of Japanese-Canadian children's internment experiences in Canada. ...I have limited the fictional narratives in this study to Canadian literature, including two children's books and three adult novels. These five texts offer children's psychological traumatization from their POW experiences during World War II, as well as their cultural traumatization from legacies of the internment after the war.
Table of Contents
Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: The Japanese-Canadian Internment History and Its Fictional Representation
Chapter Three: Thematic Representation of Psychological Trauma of Children in Internment
Chapter Four: Thematic Representation of Cultural Trauma of Child Survivors in Internment
Chapter Five: Narrative Representation of Psychological and Cultural Trauma of Children in Internment
Chapter Six: Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter Two: The Japanese-Canadian Internment History and Its Fictional Representation
Chapter Three: Thematic Representation of Psychological Trauma of Children in Internment
Chapter Four: Thematic Representation of Cultural Trauma of Child Survivors in Internment
Chapter Five: Narrative Representation of Psychological and Cultural Trauma of Children in Internment
Chapter Six: Conclusion
Bibliography