The spectacle of Japanese American trauma

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"In The Spectacle of Japanese American Trauma, Emily Roxworthy contests the notion that the U.S. government's internment policies during World War II had little impact on the postwar lives of most Japanese Americans. After the curtain was lowered on the war following the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, many Americans behaved as if the "theatre of war" had ended and life could return to normal. Roxworthy demonstrates that this theatrical logic of segregating the real from the staged, the authentic experience from the political display, grew out of the manner in which internment was agitated for and instituted by the U.S. government and media. During the war, Japanese Americans struggled to define themselves within the web of this theatrical logic, and they continue to reenact this trauma in public and private to this day."--Jacket.

subjects: Concentration camps,  Ethnic relations,  Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945,  History,  Japanese Americans,  Mass media and the war,  Psychological aspects,  Psychological aspects of Concentration camps,  Psychological aspects of World War, 1939-1945,  World War, 1939-1945,  Japanese americans, evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945,  World war, 1939-1945, psychological aspects,  World war, 1939-1945, united states,  United states, ethnic relations,  Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945,  Internment camps,  Nazi concentration camps

Places: United States

Times: 20th century