Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Maps xviii
6. Introduction 3
7. 1. The Forgetting Subjects and the Subjects Forgotten 19
8. 2. The Silencing Continues: ‘Speaking for’ Japanese Canadian Subjects of the Internment 56
9. 3. Method, Memory, and the Subjects of the Internment 79
10. 4. Cartographies of Violence: Creating Carceral Spaces and Expelling Japanese Canadians from the Nation 95
11. 5. Gendering the Subjects of the Internment: The Interior Camps of British Columbia 125
12. 6. Economies of the Carceral: The ‘Self- Support’ Camps, Sugar Beet Farms, and Domestic Work 167
13. 7. The Known and Unknown: Subjects Lost, Subjects Re-membered 203
14. 8. ‘It Is Part of My Inheritance’: Handing Down Memory of the Internment 226
15. 9. ‘Crushing the White Wall with Our Names’: Re-membering the Internment in White Spaces 267
16. 10. Conclusion: Re-membering the Subjects of the ‘Internment’ 303
17. Notes 321
18. Bibliography 403
19. Index 435
20. STUDIES IN GENDER AND HISTORY 459