Japanese Alien and Japanese-American Poets In U. S. Relocation Camps Es

On February 19, 1942, Franklin Delano Roosevelt issued the infamous decision maker Order 9066, which resulted in the internment of 110,000 Japanese Aliens and Japanese Americans in ducking camps because of the so-called military threat, they posed. In 1945, poet Lawson Fusao Inada wrote the following poem, titled Concentration Constellation, which refers to the mixed relocation camps that were used to contain these peopleIn this earthly configuration,We have, non points of light,but prominent barbs of darkBegin between the Golden States highest and concluding elevationsand name that locationManzanar. Rattlesnake a linesouthward to the order of Arizona, to the septif natives on the reservation,and call those Gila, Poston.Then just take your cartridge clipwinding your way acrossjust make yourself at homein the swamps of Arkansas.for this is Rohwer and Jerome.But now, you weary of the way.Its a heroic country, you say.Its a big history, hardlyhalfway through - with Amachelooming in the Colorado desert,Heart fold high in wideWyoming, Minidoka on the moonof Idaho, then mass to Utahsjewel of Topaz before findingyourself at northern Californiasflash-frozen shore of Tule LakeNow regard what sort of shapethis constellation takes.It sits on that point like a jagged scar,massive, on the massive landscape.It lies there like the rusted wireof a twisted and remembered fence. As Inada points out with his doctrine of analogy to a constellation, the United States g overnment had constructed many camps and scattered them all over the country. In other words, the internment of Japanese-Americans was not merely a radar target in American history it was instead a catastrophic and august forced remov... ...bstone Publishing Company, 1983.Matsura, Artist. Impressions of Gila, 1. Gila News Courier. 7 October 1942 4.Mori, Taisanboku, et al. Poets Behind Barbed Wire. Eds. Jiro Nakano and Kav Nakano. capital of Hawaii Bamboo Ridge Press, 1983.My Gila Diary. Gila News Couri er. 17 October 1942 4.Nelson, Cary. Japanese American Concentration gang Haiku. Online Available at http//www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/haiku/haiku.htm, 2003.Okihiro, Gary Y. Whispered Silences Japanese Americans and World War II. Seattle University of majuscule Press, 1996.Roripaugh, Lee Ann. Beyond Heart Mountain. New York Hudson Books, 1999.Tule Lake Committee. Kinenhi Reflections on Tule Lake. San Francisco The Tule Lake Committee, 1980.Uchida, Yoshiko. Desert expatriate The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family. Seattle University of Washington Press, 1982.