Citizen 13660
A graphic memoir recording the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans through drawings and text. Its restrained style leaves a strong aftertaste.
Work Information
Accuracy of record and a personal gaze coexist here.
Citizen 13660 is Miné Okubo's record of camp life in drawings and brief text. By calmly following ordinary details, it makes the weight of history feel even more vivid.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Univ of Washington Pr
- Published
- 1983-06-01
- Pages
- 226 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 15.88 x 1.27 x 23.5 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780295959894
- ISBN-10
- 0295959894
- Price
- 3907 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/History/Military/World War II
Mine Okubo was one of 110,000 people of Japanese descent--nearly two-thirds of them American citizens -- who were rounded up into "protective custody" shortly after Pearl Harbor. Citizen 13660 , her memoir of life in relocation centers in California and Utah, was first published in 1946, then reissued by University of Washington Press in 1983 with a new Preface by the author. With 197 pen-and-ink illustrations, and poignantly written text, the book has been a perennial bestseller, and is used in college and university courses across the country. "[Mine Okubo] took her months of life in the concentration camp and made it the material for this amusing, heart-breaking book. . . . The moral is never expressed, but the wry pictures and the scanty words make the reader laugh -- and if he is an American too -- blush." -- Pearl Buck about Mine Okubo in the 2008 UW Press book, Mine Okubo: Following Her Own Road , edited by Greg Robinson and Elena Tajima Creef. http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/ROBMIN.html
Reviews
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すべての図書館に置いていてほしい本
第二次世界大戦中のアメリカにおける日系人収容の体験談。アメリカの国費で欧州留学もした画家である筆者が収容体験を淡々とユーモアに富んだ絵と文章で綴る。過酷な状況を恨むでもなく、できることから対処しようとする姿、主張すべきはする姿が印象的。永遠に語り継がれるべき記憶遺産だと思います。
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Quality Read
As someone who has lived in Idaho, Utah, and California for several years, this book was eye opening. The banality of harassment and horror that Japanese Americans experienced during WWII is captured in incredible artistic and narrative detail throughout the book.
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Excellent Price
Required reading for a class. Arrived quickly and was exactly what was required.
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Interesting account of life in the relocation camp
The book is very well written and gives a true image of what life was like in the camp. The illustrations further enhanced the story . Would be a great book for student history reading as many do not even know that it exisited.
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Pristine Copy
Arrived as expected; wasn't marked or damaged in any way.
Related Literary Awards
- American Book Awards Edition 5 (1984) ・Winner