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Barcode37821002573935
LocationMarshall District
TitleQuestions 27 & 28 : a novel / Karen Tei Yamashita.
AuthorYamashita, Karen Tei, 1951-, author.
Call NoFIC YAM
CollectionAdult New Arrivals

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International Standard Book Number 9781644453810
International Standard Book Number 1644453819
Dewey Decimal Classification Number 813/.54
Personal Name Yamashita, Karen Tei, 1951-, author.
Title Statement Questions 27 & 28 : a novel / Karen Tei Yamashita.
Varying Form of Title Questions twenty-seven & twenty-eight.
Imprint Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, 2026
Physical Description 450 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography, Etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (page 441-450).
Summary, Etc. "In February 1942, shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an executive order authorizing the secretary of war to remove 120,000 Japanese Americans from their homes on the West Coast and corral them into inland concentration camps. To be considered for release, they were required to answer the so-called loyalty questionnaire. Question 27 asked the inmates―who had been imprisoned without cause by the US military―whether they were willing to serve in combat for the US military. Question 28 asked them―many of whom American citizens who had never visited Japan―to renounce allegiance to the Japanese emperor. Answering these questions caused volatile divisions within the camps, tore families and friends apart, and had lasting repercussions in the decades postwar. Questions 27 & 28 reaches backward and forward from the time of the questionnaire, chronicling the individuals who arrived in the US from Japan at the turn of the century, their children who came of age during war and incarceration, and their descendants who lived in its aftermath." --Amazon.com.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Historical fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Japanese Americans Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Asian Americans Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Japanese Americans Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Japanese United States History Fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Historical fiction

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