Disturbing and provocative, Cartographies of Violence explores Japanese-Canadian women's memories in order to map the effects of forced displacements, incarcerations, and the separations of family, friends, and communities.

Acknowledgements
Dedication
Preface

Introduction

1. The Forgetting Subjects and the Subjects Forgotten
2. The Silencing Continues: "Speaking For" Japanese Canadian Subjects of the Internment
3. Method, Memory, and the Subjects of the Internment
4. Cartographies of Violence: Creating Carceral Spaces and Expelling Japanese Canadians from the Nation
5. Gendering the Subject(s) of the Internment: The B.C. Interior Cases
6. Economies of the Carceral: The "Self-Support" Camps, Sugar Beet Farms, and Domestic Work
7. The Known and Unknown: Communities Lost, Communities Remembered
8. "It's Part of My Inheritance": Handing Down Memory of the Internment
9. "Crushing the White Wall with Our Names": Re-Membering the Internment in White Spaces

Conclusion: Re-Membering the Subject(s) of the "Internment"

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Mona Oikawa is an associate professor in the Department of Equity Studies at York University.