Investigation of the Documents of the Japanese American Internment Camp in UCLA

作为美国的少数民族，日裔美国人一直被鼓励相信他们没有文化完整性，他们要么是亚洲人，要么是美国人，或者两者兼而有之。这种非此即彼的神话和同样愚蠢的双重人格概念萦绕在他们的脑叶上，同时被亚洲和美国所拒绝，证明他们既不是亚洲人也不是美国人。历史上，日本移民被认为是不可入籍的，因为他们一贯的种族和缺乏适应能力，加上对“黄祸”的恐惧。这些观点导致了1924年移民法的颁布，禁止移民。这种对日本移民和日裔美国人的反感集中体现在第二次世界大战的拘留营，这是令人印象深刻的描述和记录在各种艺术形式，包括小说，诗歌，绘画和电影。我们的研究旨在验证他们的身份和尊严为什么以及如何失去和恢复 ...更多信息 艾德主要通过集中营的文学作品。实际研究包括初步研究（资料收集和采访）以及翻译一些日裔美国人的相关文学作品。我们的两次访问（2005年2月和9月）提交给洛杉矶加州大学青年研究图书馆特别收藏部，该图书馆收藏了大量拘留营的文件和档案，为我们提供了各种相关的研究资料。然而，令我们深感遗憾的是，油印材料中的大部分已经损坏，无法获准影印。许多有囚犯文学作品的拘留所期刊（诗歌，短歌，俳句，散文，短篇小说）都在这些脆弱的材料中。尽管如此，收集到的材料确实信息丰富，相关性强，如果混杂的话，肯定是重新考虑什么是文学的第一个小而确定的步骤之一。（或者更确切地说，人类话语）是，从而重组其整个概念，并最终通过批判性阅读重新致力于未来世界。最后报告中收集的资料将在不久的将来进行分类、归档和分析，希望能给我们一个机会加深对这部作品的理解，并扩大这些体裁在美国的读者数量。此外，在本项目的早期前期阶段，首席研究员与比较文学系的M.Mori博士合作，在格鲁吉亚大学翻译山田光也的《营地笔记和其他诗歌》（1976）和《沙漠奔跑：诗歌和故事》（1988）。现在，在后现代主义和后殖民主义时代，可以说文学现在没有权威的经典。这意味着文学经典作品的概念不能被完全定义。也就是说，没有所谓的边缘文学或少数民族文学。主流美国文学，如果有的话，存在是因为所有作品的存在，其中许多作品不在这一潮流中，反之亦然。考虑到少数群体的意义从来没有像现在这样重要。少

As a minority in the US, Japanese Americans have been encouraged to believe that they have no cultural integrity in terms of what they are, and that they are either Asian or American or are measurably both. This myth of being either/or and the equally goofy concept of a dual personality haunting their lobes while being rejected by both Asia and America proper proved they were neither one nor the other.Historically Japanese immigrants were regarded as unnaturalizable due to their persistent ethnicity and lack of adaptability coupled with spread of the fear of ‘the yellow peril.' These views led to the enactment of the Immigration Act of 1924, forbidding immigration. This antipathy against Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans was epitomized by the internment camp of World War II, which was impressively depicted and recorded in various art forms, including novels, poetry, paintings and films. Our research aimed at verifying why and how their identity and dignity was lost and recover … More ed mainly via internment camp literature. The actual research consisted of preliminary research (collection of materials and interview) and translations of some related literary works produced by Japanese Americans.Our two visits (February and September, 2005) to the Department of Special Collections, Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles, which has a collection of voluminous documents and files of internment camp, provided us with various kinds of related research materials. To our great regret, however, much of the material in mimeograph printing has been too damaged to get the permission to photocopy them. Many of the internment journals with inmate's literary works (poems, tanka, haiku, essay, short story) are in these fragile materials.Still, the collected materials, which are really informative and relevant, if miscellaneous, are surely to be among several first small but certain steps toward reconsidering what literature (or rather, human discourse) is, thereby restructuring its whole concept, and finally rededicating ourselves to a future world via critical reading. The collected materials in the final report will be in the near future classified, filed, and analyzed will hopefully give us an opportunity to deepen our understanding of this work as well as spread the number of readers of these genres in the United States.Also, in the early preliminary stage of this project, the head investigator cooperated with Dr.M.Mori of the Department of Comparative Literature, at the University of Georgia in translating Mitsuye Yamada's Camp Notes and Other Poems (1976) and Desert Run : Poems and Stories (1988).Now, in the age of postmodernism and post-colonialism, it can be said that there is now no authorized canon in literature. This has meant that the concept of canonical works of literature cannot be exclusively defined. It also means there is no such thing as marginal literature or literary works of minority. Mainstream American literature, if any, exists because of the existence of all works many of which are not in that stream, and vice versa. It has never been more vital to take the meaning of minority into account. Less