An American Memoir: Japanese American Internment
Neil Nakadate
Wednesday, 19 Feb 2014 at 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.No podcast available due to technical difficulties.
Listen to Neil Nakadate on Iowa Public Radio's Talk of Iowa with Charity Nebbe: Tuesday, March 4, 2014: Internment Camps in the U.S.
Cosponsored By:
- Asian American Studies Program
- English
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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