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Descendants: Nikkei Poetry from the Afterlife of Wartime Incarceration

Descendants: Nikkei Poetry from the Afterlife of Wartime Incarceration

Shimoda, Brandon
Saito, Brynn

Hardcover

Poetry AnthologiesGeneral Poetry

ISBN13: 9798888904305
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: Apr 1 2025
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
An anthology of poetry on Nikkei incarceration, written by descendants of the WWII prisons and camps
A tribute to the 150,000 people harmed by the United States and Canada during WWII, this anthology is the first of its kind. Its poets express a range of experiences and perspectives from the afterlife of this historical yet enduring injustice through poetry. With a foreword by acclaimed poet, activist, and concentration camp survivor, Mitsuye Yamada, and an introduction by the editors, Brynn Saito and Brandon Shimoda, Descendants explores intergenerational trauma as the contributors, all descendants themselves, sift through an intimate record of wartime incarceration.
Contributors to this anthology include poets of Japanese American, Japanese Canadian, Okinawan American, Okinawan Canadian, Japanese Hawaiian, Alaska Native/Tlingit, mixed race Nikkei, and Japanese descent. These poems inhabit and retell the story of incarceration and its many legacies, through a diversity of modes and themes, creating a kaleidoscopic whole exploring anti-Asian racism, assimilation, loyalty, resistance, and redemption. The anthology illuminates individual perspectives and reveals collective experience. It insists upon the imperative of poetry in the processes of solidarity and transgenerational healing.

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