Citizen 13660

Informationen zum Autor Miné Okubo (1912 - 2001) was born in California. From 1939 to 1942 she was employed as a Works Progress Administration artist. In 1944 she was hired by Fortune magazine and relocated to New York, where she continued to work as an artist, with solo and group exhibitions at museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Klappentext "Mine Okubo was one of over one hundred thousand people of Japanese descent--nearly two-thirds of whom were American citizens--who were forced into 'protective custody' shortly after Pearl Harbor. Citizen 13660, Okubo's graphic memoir of life in relocation centers in California and Utah, illuminates this experience with ... illustrations and ... text. Now available with a new introduction by Christine Hong and in a wide-format artist edition, this graphic novel can reach a new generation of readers and scholars"--

Product details

• Authors: Min Okubo, Min& Okubo, Min? Okubo, Minae Okubo, Mine Okubo, Miné Okubo, Mine/ Hong Okubo
• Assisted by: Mine Okubo (Illustration)
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2014
• EAN: 9780295993546
• ISBN: 978-0-295-99354-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Classics of Asian American Literature; Classics of Asian American Lit; Classics of Asian American Literature; Classics of Asian American Lit
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire > Comic; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories