Deformed Subjects, Docile Bodies: Disciplinary Practices and Subject-Constitution in Stories of Japanese-American Internment
- 1 January 1993
- book chapter
- Published by SAGE Publications
- p. 143-163
- https://doi.org/10.4135/9781483345277.n7
Abstract
The second world war evacuation, exclusion, and internment of 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry (including 70,000 U.S. citizens) in 10 “relocation centers,” though transpiring SO years ago, remains something more than a historical curiosity or a constitutional anomaly. A half-century after President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, the edict that set the exclusion and internment into motion, the legacy of this extraordinary experience continues to be visited and revisited among the Nikkei 1 . Evidence of the ongoing salience of the internment and its aftermath can be readily found: Throughout 1992, a nationwide, yearlong series of events commemorated the 50-year anniversary ...Keywords
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