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- ISSN: 0010-0994
- E-ISSN: 2161-8178
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Putting Their Lives on the Line: Personal Narrative as Political Discourse among Japanese Petitioners in American World War II Internment
- Source: College English, Volume 74, Issue 1, Sep 2011, p. 50 - 68
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- 01 Sep 2011
Abstract
The author examines the circumstances and rhetoric of two petitions by Japanese Hawaiians, among them her grandfather, who were interned on the U.S. mainland during World War II. In particular, she explains how these writers were arguing for political subjectivity and voice within the discourse of their oppressors.
© 2011 by the National Council of Teachers of English