Research Catalog
The emperor's orphans
- Title
- The emperor's orphans / Sally Ito.
- Author
- Ito, Sally, 1964-
- Publication
- Winnipeg, Manitoba : Turnstone Press, [2018]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 19-6197 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- viii, 208 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "During the Second World War, approximately 4,000 Japanese-Canadians were "repatriated" to Japan. Among those Canadians sent back were members of author and poet Sally Ito's family. As a Japanese Canadian child growing up in the suburbs of Edmonton, Alberta, Ito's early life was a lone island of steamed tofu and vegetables amidst a sea of pot roast and mashed potatoes. Through the Redress Movement, Parliamentary acknowledgement of wartime injustices, and the restoration of citizenship to those exiled to Japan, Ito considers her role as an author, meditating on culture and identity. Later, she returns to Japan and re-lives the displacement of her family through interviews, letters, and shared memories. Her journey compellingly weaves her family's path through the darkest days of the Pacific War, its devastating aftermath, and the repercussions on cultural identity for all the Emperor's orphans."--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-6197
- ISBN
- 9780888015679
- 0888015674
- LCCN
- 2018438490
- OCLC
- 1077262201
- Author
- Ito, Sally, 1964- author.
- Title
- The emperor's orphans / Sally Ito.
- Publisher
- Winnipeg, Manitoba : Turnstone Press, [2018]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Additional Formats
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Ito, Sally. Emperor's orphans. Toronto : Turnstone Press, 2018 9780888015686 (OCoLC)1077244265
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-6197