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The following are literary works on or related to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
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Novels and memoirs[edit]
- Adios to Tears: The Memoirs of a Japanese-Peruvian Internee in U.S. Concentration Camps (1993)[1] - Seiichi Higashide - ISBN 9780295979144
- A Bridge Between Us[2] - Julie Shigekuni - ISBN 978-0385482271
- Citizen 13660 (1946) - Miné Okubo - ISBN 978-0295993546
- City in the Sun (1946) - Karon Kehoe - ISBN 9781125751763
- Desert Exile (1982) - Yoshiko Uchida - ISBN 978-0295961903
- The Evacuation Diary of Hatsuye Egami (1995) - ed. Claire Gorfinkel - ISBN 0964804212
- Dusty Exile: Looking Back at Japanese Relocation in World War II (1999) - Catherine Embree Harris - ISBN 978-1566472753
- Farewell to Manzanar (1973) - Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston - ISBN 978-0307976079
- Hawaii, End of the Rainbow[3] - Kazuo Miyamoto
- Home Again[4] - James Edmiston
- Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (2009) - Jamie Ford
- I Call to Remembrance: Toyo Suyemoto's Years of Internment (2007) - Suyemoto - ISBN 9780813540726
- Issei and Nisei: The Internment Years (1967)[5] - Daisuke Kitagawa
- Journey to Topaz (1971) - Yoshiko Uchida - ISBN 978-1890771911
- Journey Home (1978) - Yoshiko Uchida - ISBN 978-0689716416
- The Kikuchi Diary: Chronicle from an American Concentration Camp: the Tanforan Journals of Charles Kikuchi (1973) - ISBN 9780252062834
- The Legend of Fire Horse Woman (2003) - Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston - ISBN 978-0-7582-0455-4
- Life Behind Barbed Wire: The World War II Internment Memoirs of a Hawai'i Issei (2007) - Yasutaro Soga
- Looking Like the Enemy: My Story of Imprisonment in Japanese-American Internment Camps (2005)[6] - Mary Matsuda Gruenewald - ISBN 978-0-939165-58-2
- Morning Glory, Evening Shadow: Yamato Ichihashi and His Internment Writings, 1942-1945 (1997) - ISBN 0804727333
- The Moved-Outers (1945) - Florence Crannell Means
- Nisei Daughter - Monica Sone
- No-No Boy - John Okada
- Picture Bride (1987) - Yoshiko Uchida
- Signs of Home: The Paintings and Wartime Diary of Kamekichi Tokita (2011) - ed. Barbara Johns - ISBN 0295991003
- Silent Honor (1996) - Danielle Steele - ISBN 0440224055
- Sleeping on Potatoes: A Lumpy Adventure from Manzanar to the Corporate Tower (2003) - Carl Nomura - ISBN 0970194730
- Snow Falling on Cedars (1994) - David Guterson
- Swimming in the American: A Memoir and Selected Writings (2005) - Hiroshi Kashiwagi - ISBN 978-0934609159
- Tradition[7] - Anne Emery
- Tule Lake (1979) - Edward Miyakawa - ISBN 9781553698449
- Tule Lake: An Issei Memoir (1981) - Noboru Shirai - ISBN 9780971610804
- Under the Blood Red Sun (1995) - Graham Salisbury
- What the Scarecrow Said (1996)[8] - Stewart David Ikeda
- When the Emperor was Divine (2002) - Julie Otsuka
- Why She Left Us[9] - Rahna Reiko Rizzuto
Children's and young adult books[edit]
- American Dreams (1993) - Lisa Banim - ISBN 0613072332
- Baseball Saved Us (1993) - Ken Mochizuki - ISBN 1880000199
- Bat 6 (1998) - Virginia Euwer Wolff - ISBN 0-03-066279-6
- Best Friends Forever: A World War II Scrapbook (2010) - Beverly Patt - ISBN 0761455779
- A Boy No More (2004) - Harry Mazer
- The Bracelet (1993) - Yoshiko Uchida - ISBN 978-0698113909
- A Diamond in the Desert (2012) - Kathryn Fitzmaurice - ISBN 978-0142424377
- Dust of Eden (2014) - Mariko Nagai
- The Fences Between Us: The Diary of Piper Davis (2010) - Kirby Larson
- Fish for Jimmy: Inspired by One Family's Experience in a Japanese American Internment Camp (2013) - Katie Yamasaki - ISBN 978-0823423750
- Flowers from Mariko (2001) - Rick Noguchi, Deneen Jenks - ISBN 978-1584300328
- The Girl with Hair Like the Sun (2012)[10] - Claire Mix
- Home of the Brave (2002) - Allen Say
- The Journal of Ben Uchida: Citizen 13559, Mirror Lake Internment Camp, California, 1942 (1999) - Barry Denenberg
- The Lucky Baseball: My Story in a Japanese-American Internment Camp (2010) - Suzanne Lieurance - ISBN 978-0766033115
- Missing in Action (2010) - Dean Hughes
- The Moon Bridge (1992) - Marcia Savin - ISBN 978-0590437653
- Mystery at Manzanar (2008) - Eric Fein - ISBN 978-1434208477
- Painting the Rainbow (2014) - Amy Gordon - ISBN 9780823425259
- A Place Where Sunflowers Grow (2006) - Amy Lee-Tai - ISBN 978-0892392742
- So Far from the Sea (1998) - Eve Bunting - ISBN 0395720958
- Sylvia and Aki (2011) - Winifred Conkling - ISBN 9781582463377
- Take What You Can Carry (2012) - Kevin C. Pyle - ISBN 9780805082869
- Thin Wood Walls (2004) - David Patneaude - ISBN 9780618809158
- Weedflower (2006) - Cynthia Kadohata
References[edit]
- ^ Norm Masaji Ibuki. "Book Review: Adios to Tears," (September 21, 2011) DiscoverNikkei.org. Retrieved November 20, 2014.
- ^ "A Bridge Between Us (book)," Densho Encyclopedia
- ^ "Hawaii, End of the Rainbow (book)," Densho Encyclopedia. Retrieved November 19, 2014.
- ^ "Home Again (book)," Densho Encyclopedia. Retrieved November 19, 2014.
- ^ "Issei and Nisei: The Internment Years (book)," Densho Encyclopedia. Retrieved November 19, 2014.
- ^ Looking Like the Enemy website. Retrieved November 20, 2014.
- ^ "Tradition (book)," Densho Encyclopedia. Retrieved November 19, 2014.
- ^ Donna Kato. "The Winter of Content: Fiction: What the Scarecrow Said, by Stewart David Ikeda," (June 30, 1996) Los Angeles Times. Retrieved November 20, 2014.
- ^ "Why She Left Us (book)," Densho Encyclopedia. Retrieved November 19, 2014.
- ^ The Girl with Hair Like the Sun website
External links[edit]
- Stan Yogi. "Literary works on incarceration," Densho Encyclopedia.