Frank Abe (Livres)

Frank Abe Livres

Frank Abe est un auteur primé qui se consacre à l'histoire et à la littérature de l'internement des Américains d'origine japonaise. Son travail met au jour des récits de résistance et de résilience face à l'injustice. L'approche d'Abe allie recherche méticuleuse et narration captivante, donnant vie à ces chapitres d'histoire importants et souvent négligés. Son effort consiste à garantir que ces voix et expériences soient entendues et comprises.

We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration

160pages
6 heures de lecture

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Three voices. Three acts of defiance. One mass injustice.The story of camp as you’ve never seen it before. Japanese Americans complied when evicted from their homes in World War II -- but many refused to submit to imprisonment in American concentration camps without a fight.In this groundbreaking graphic novel, meet:-- JIM AKUTSU, the inspiration for John Okada’s No-No Boy, who refuses to be drafted from the camp at Minidoka when classified as a non-citizen, an enemy alien;-- HIROSHI KASHIWAGI, who resists government pressure to sign a loyalty oath at Tule Lake, but yields to family pressure to renounce his U.S. citizenship; and-- MITSUYE ENDO, a reluctant recruit to a lawsuit contesting her imprisonment, who refuses a chance to leave the camp at Topaz so that her case could reach the U.S. Supreme Court.Based upon painstaking research, We Hereby Refuse presents an original vision of America’s past with disturbing links to the American present.