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Voices of Angel Island: Inscriptions and Immigrant Poetry, 1910-1945 PDF

357 Pages·2020·31 MB·English
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by Charles Egan| 2020| 357 pages| 31| English

About Voices of Angel Island: Inscriptions and Immigrant Poetry, 1910-1945

Voices of Angel Island is a historical and literary anthology of the writings of immigrants detained at Angel Island, designed to provide a conduit for readers today to connect with early-20th-century perspectives on the process of and “becoming American. and “The Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco Bay has been called the and “Ellis Island of the West, and ” but its purpose was quite different. It was primarily a detention center, established in large part to discourage immigration by Asians. The station barracks contain an extraordinary hundreds of poems and prose records in half a dozen languages are on the walls, inscribed by immigrant detainees between 1910 and 1940, and by POWs and and “enemy aliens and ” during World War II. Charles Egan draws on over a decade’s work deciphering the wall inscriptions by Japanese, Chinese, Korean, European, and other detainees to assemble a selection of their writings in this book, alongside literary materials from Bay Area ethnic newspapers. While each inscription tells the story of an individual, taken together they illuminate the historical, economic, and cultural forces that shaped the lives of ordinary people in the early 20th century.

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Author:Charles Egan
Publication Year:2020
ISBN:9781501360459
Pages:357
Language:English
File Size:31
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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