Farewell to Manzanar (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, James D. Houston
- First Published: 1973
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: World War II and the early 1970’s
- Setting: California
- Principal Characters: Jeanne Wakatsuki, Papa, Mama, Woody
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Memoir
- Subjects: Family or family life, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Racism, Prejudices or antipathies, World War II, California, West, U.S., War, Loyalty, Patriotism, Japan or Japanese people, Prisoners of war, Japanese Americans, Paranoia
- Locales: California
Form and Content
Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment documents one family’s experience in California as the United States government relocated thousands of Japanese Americans following the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. In the first-person account, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston—with the assistance of her husband James D. Houston—remembers her childhood and growing up behind barbed-wire fences in the Manzanar relocation camp in the high country of the California foothills. Farewell to...
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