{"product_id":"9780872869295","title":"The Afterlife is Letting Go","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA memoiristic travelogue \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ethat \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eilluminates the enduring legacy of the mass incarceration of Japanese \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eimmigrants and Japanese \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAmericans during World War II. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a series of reflective, multi-layered, and sometimes multi-voiced essays, poet Brandon Shimoda explores the “afterlife” of the U.S. government’s forced removal and mass incarceration of Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans during WWII, excavating the ways these events continue to resonate today—in storytelling and silence, in literature and art, in legislation and protest. What emerges is a panoramic, yet intimate portrait of intergenerational trauma and healing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a book about memory, how we remember and how we forget, and how remembering often takes the form of forgetting. Shimoda attempts to answer this pivotal question (posed by Christina Sharpe, in her influential work): \u003cem\u003eHow do we memorialize an event that is \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003estill \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eongoing?\u003c\/em\u003e Informed by personal\/familial history, years of research and travel, including visits to museums, memorials and the ruins of incarceration sites, these essays take us on both a physical and a metaphysical journey. What becomes increasingly clear are the infinite connections between the treatment of Japanese Americans and other forms of oppression, criminalization, dispossession, and state violence enacted by the United States, past, present, and ongoing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHeld together throughout by excerpts from interviews, conversations, and correspondence with over 200 descendants of people who were incarcerated, this is also a book about community, as well as a tribute to it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brandon Shimoda","offers":[{"title":"City Lights Publishers |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2024-11-15","offer_id":45663904465151,"sku":"9780872869295","price":27.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/9780872869295_p0_v1_s1200x630.jpg?v=1718205168","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9780872869295","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}