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Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 A Suppressed Memory
1.2 An Overview of Japanese Immigration to America
Chapter2: Re-examining the Evacuation and Incarceration of Japanese Americans
2.1 A Brief Summary of Two Texts
2.1.1 Farewell to Manzanar
2.1.2 Snow Falling on Cedars
2.2 The Historical Representations of a Shameful Chapter of American History
2.2.1 Behind Barbed Wire
2.2.2 Emasculation and Disruption
2.2.3 The Irretrievable Losses
Chapter 3: The Myth of “Military Necessity”
3.1 A Metaphorical Irony: Only Jap, Neither Italian Nor German
3.2 “Military Necessity” or “Racial Motivated”
Chapter4: The Reflection of Long-standing Discriminations Against “Orientals”
4.1 Cultural Differences As a Fuse of Exclusion
4.2 “Ineligible Aliens”-A Deliberate Misreading of “East”
4.3 The Question of“ Who I Am”
4.4 A Literary Reminder-Snow Falling On Cedars
Chapter 5: Conclusion
Notes
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