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Thursday, October 10, 2024. Virtual event. In their anthology, The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration, co-editors Frank Abe and Floyd Cheung, along with translator Andrew Way Leong, recover and reframe the writings of people targeted by exclusion and forced removal during WWII.
“Our volume recovers pieces that have been long overlooked on the shelf, buried in the archives, or languished unread in the Japanese language… We never knew of these writings because we couldn’t read them. With our anthology we have scratched the surface of writing from the camps that is still out there waiting to be read,” shares Frank Abe.
Included in this landmark anthology are eighteen new translations of pieces originally written in Japanese. In the short story “They Took My Father Too,” Kibei Nisei writer Fujiwo Tanisaki creates the character of a Nisei son who returns home to learn the FBI has arrested his father and taken him to a prison camp near Los Angeles, likely the Tuna Canyon Detention Station. Read “They Took My Father Too” at the Densho Catalyst.
