· Displacement is somewhat autobiographical for author Hughes, who also never knew the grandmother who had been in the internment camps during the war. Sending Kiku back in time enables her to show the personal and community trauma that was Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins. · Synopsis. Expand/Collapse Synopsis. A teenager is pulled back in time to witness her grandmother's experiences in World War II-era Japanese internment camps in Displacement, a historical graphic novel from Kiku Hughes. Kiku is on vacation in San Francisco when suddenly she finds herself displaced to the s Japanese-American internment camp that her late grandmother, Ernestina, /5. · Book Details. A teenager is pulled back in time to witness her grandmother's experiences in World War II-era Japanese internment camps in Displacement, a historical graphic novel from Kiku Hughes. Kiku is on vacation in San Francisco when suddenly she finds herself displaced to the s Japanese-American internment camp that her late grandmother, Ernestina, was forcibly relocated to .
Displacement. Written by Kiku Hughes. A teenager is pulled back in time to witness her grandmother's experiences in World War II-era Japanese internment camps in Displacement, a historical graphic novel from Kiku Hughes. Kiku is on vacation in San Francisco when suddenly she finds herself displaced to the s Japanese-American internment camp. Author, Hughes follows a teen experiencing Japanese internment firsthand through time travel to the WWII era. Japanese American Kiku Hughes, 16, feels disconnected from her Japanese heritage, and she knows little about her family's history, which includes internment in Utah's Topaz Relocation Center. Parents need to know that Displacement is a fact-based fantasy graphic novel, written and illustrated by Kiku Hughes, that depicts a contmporary American teen girl's mysterious, time-traveling trips from her home in San Francisco back to the camp where her grandmother was interned during World War www.doorway.ru explores racism, xenophobia (fear of strangers or foreigners), and activism.
But even for readers versed in this history, Kiku Hughes’s Displacement is a powerful innovation in camp literature and Japanese American literature overall. Displacement brings together several current conversations in camp history: intergenerational trauma, the relevance of camp history for present-day history, tracing genealogy, the tradition of resistance to incarceration, and Japanese American queer history. Kiku finds the courage to share her strange experience with her mother, who herself experienced "displacement." Together, mother and daughter research their family's past and the politics of the time, as well as the politics of the time they are living in, making connections for readers between the forced relocation camps and the forced separation of families at the border and on American soil. Kiku Hughes' Displacement is a part fiction - part bsed on real life, graphic novel. In Displacement, Kiku Hughes spins her grandmother's struggles in the Japanese internment camps, in a form of time-travelling fantasy fiction.
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