An American Memoir: Japanese American Internment

Speaker: 
Neil Nakadate
 
19 Feb 2014
 
7:00 PM
 
Sun Room, Memorial Union

Neil Nakadate is the author of Looking After Minidoka: An American Memoir. During World War II, 110,000 Japanese Americans were removed from their homes and incarcerated by the U.S. government. In Looking After Minidoka, the "internment camp" years become a prism for understanding three generations of Japanese American life, from immigration to the end of the twentieth century. Nakadate is also the author of Understanding Jane Smiley and coauthor of A Rhetoric of Doing: Essays on Written Discourse in Honor of James L Kinneavy and Writing in the Liberal Arts Tradition: A Rhetoric With Readings. He has a doctorate in English and American Literature from Indiana University and is Iowa State University Professor Emeritus of English.

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Listen to Neil Nakadate on Iowa Public Radio's [i]Talk of Iowa[/i] with Charity Nebbe: [url=http://iowapublicradio.org/post/internment-camps-us]Tuesday, March 4, 2014: Internment Camps in the U.S.[/url]