Exile: Japanese American Internment and the restoration of memory through the work of Hisaye Yamamoto and other Nisei writers

Exile, 1942-45," draw on her personal experiences to describe the details of Japanese American internees' lives in the concentration camps where they were held by the U .S. government during World War II.In this paper, the significance of Yamamoto's writings about these experiences is reviewed.Then, there is a discussion of the influence of Nisei writers' works on the "Redress Movement," in which Japanese Americans campaigned for an apology and compensation from the U .S. government, and of