No-No Boy | The Splintering Effects of Internment on Japanese American Families and Communities
In the following excerpt, Kim recounts Okada’s depiction of the splintering effects of internment on Japanese American families and communities.
Unquestionably, internment propelled to crisis dimensions the conflicts and tensions already existing in the Japanese American family and community. But no Japanese American literary work depicts the fragmenting effects of internment on the family and community more vividly or poignantly than John Okada’s No-No Boy (1957). The novel is set in Seattle just after the end of the war, when the disfiguring effects of the internment and the racial hysteria that made it possible were discernible in Japanese American communities all along the West Coast. Like All I Asking for Is My...
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