In this Book
- I Call to Remembrance: Toyo Suyemoto's Years of Internment
- Book
- 2007
- Published by: Rutgers University Press
A uniquely poetic contribution to the small body of internment memoirs, Suyemoto's account includes information about policies and wartime decisions that are not widely known, and recounts in detail the way in which internees adjusted their notions of selfhood and citizenship, lending insight to the complicated and controversial questions of citizenship, accountability, and resistance of first- and second-generation Japanese Americans.
Suyemoto's poems, many written during internment, are interwoven throughout the text and serve as counterpoints to the contextualizing narrative. Suyemoto's poems, many written during internment, are interwoven throughout the text and serve as counterpoints to the contextualizing narrative. A small collection of poems written in the years following her incarceration further reveal the psychological effects of her experience.
Table of Contents
- Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
- pp. i-viii
- Editor's Preface
- pp. xi-xiv
- Note on the D rawings
- pp. xv-xvi
- Introduction
- pp. xvii-xlvii
- Dedication
- pp. xlviii-xxl
- Author’s Preface
- pp. 5-8
- Chapter 1. Berkeley
- pp. 9-15
- Chapter 2. April 1942
- pp. 16-21
- Chapter 3. Morning of Departure
- pp. 22-28
- Chapter 4. Growing Up in Nihonmachi
- pp. 29-36
- Chapter 5. Intake at Tanforan
- pp. 37-43
- Chapter 6. Tanforan Days
- pp. 44-50
- Chapter 7. Tanforan High School
- pp. 51-54
- Chapter 9. Another Move
- pp. 68-73
- Chapter 10. Entry into Topaz
- pp. 74-78
- Chapter 11. Settling In
- pp. 79-86
- Chapter 12. As 1942 Ended
- pp. 87-95
- Chapter 13. Block 4-8-E
- pp. 96-105
- Chapter 14. Schooling in Topaz
- pp. 106-111
- Chapter 15. Topaz Public LIbrary
- pp. 112-119
- Chapter 16. Sensei (including image plates)
- pp. 120-132
- Chapter 17. Into Another Year
- pp. 133-140
- Chapter 18. Registration for Loyalty
- pp. 141-148
- Chapter 19. Weighed in the Balance
- pp. 149-159
- Chapter 20. We Be Brethren
- pp. 160-166
- Chapter 21. In the Length of Days
- pp. 167-178
- Chapter 22. The Dust Before the Wind
- pp. 179-185
- Chapter 23. The Dispersal
- pp. 186-195
- References
- pp. 207-208
- About the Editor
- pp. 209-210