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The Spectacle of Japanese American Trauma: Racial Performativity and World War II 9780824865047

Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
CHAPTER 1. “A Race of Ingenious Marionettes" Theatricalizing the Japanese, 1853–1946
CHAPTER 2. Spectacularizing Japanese American Suspects The Genealogy of the FBI’s Post–Pearl Harbor Raids
CHAPTER 3. Performative Citizenship and Anti-Japanese Melodrama The Mass Media Construction of Home Front Nationalism
CHAPTER 4. “Manzanar, the Eyes of the World Are upon You” Internee Performance and Archival Ambivalence
CHAPTER 5. Transnational Theatre at the Tule Lake Segregation Center
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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