Week 4 Notes
4/23/2019
Short stories vs Novel Novel —— Precision/Concision ——- Poetry
Precision
Concision
Sub-text/understatement
Themes
Tension and interethnic interactions Finding Passion
Tension between Issei and Nisei Patriarchy
Struggles of immigrants
Haiku: Form of high art (class)
Linguistic quality in Japanese
Notions of nature and the natural
Come See the Paradise (1990)
Jack projectionist union lawyer, gets involved in theater arson
Gets removed from Union
Flashback: Daughter asking mom (Lily) in present day
Japanese family in a cinema, Mr. Ogawa chastises wife, wife refuses him due to being a drunkard, Mr. Ogata commits suicide
Jack meets brother’s family, brother content, calls Jack a Red (Communism)
Jacks starts work as a projectionist, meets Lily, takes her to lunch with brother, asks for kiss on the first meeting
Lily’s father (Mr. Kawamura) arranges a marriage to Mr. Fujioka to pay off debts
Mr. Kawamura finds out about Jack from Lily, forbids her from seeing Jack, Jack is fired
Jack and Lily make love in the projection room
They elope from California to Seattle to marry
Daughter asks for ice cream (present day)
Jack works for fish cannery, sees union protestors, goes back to old habits with union, yells at Lily
Jack goes to riot, gets jailed, Lily goes back to California
Mr. Kawamura gets arrested on suspicion of enemy contact
Jack and Lily reunite, yard sale due to orders to evacuate, breaking father’s records
Lily and mom reconnect, Mini/Minae introduced to grandma, mother forbidden to write back from father
Little Tokyo trashed, Lily and family sent to racetrack, moved to camp two months later
Jack drafted into Army or jailed
Mr. Kawamura ends up at camp, Charlie rebels against him, rumors of giving info to FBI, is seperated from camp for being a traitor
Jack visits camp, turns out it was desertion, Japanese rally at camp, Harry joins Army, loyalty questionnaire
Mr. Kawamura becomes ill, Jack reconciles with Mr. Kawamura, Mr. Kawamura walks off into sunset (rising/setting sun, poverty/American dream)
Camps considered unconstitutional, Charlie goes to Japan, rest of family goes to strawbeey farm owned by cousin Sohako
Jack and Lily reunite
4/24/2019
Verisimilitude – degree to which the past can be recreated
Manzanar– internment camp with an annual pilgrimage
1990: Gulf War
1988: Amerasian Homecoming Act – Allowed for the passage of Amerasian children and their parents to the U.S
1988: Civil Liberties Act – Allowed reparations to survivors of the camps
Alan Parker: Mississippi Burning (1988) – Based on Mississippi Summer 1964
Ratification of 15th Amendment – Allowing African American Males to vote
Students from northern universities go to the South to register black voters
Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, James Chaney
4/26/2019
Enka: Sentimental ballad (Japanese) song form
Go for Broke – 442nd Regimental Combat Team’s slogan