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DOI	10.1080/14484528.2018.1446666
	Life Writing, Cultural Memory, and Historical Mediation in Julie Otsuka's When the Emperor was Divine
	Liao, Pei-chen
通讯作者	Liao, PC (corresponding author), Natl Cheng Kung Univ, Dept Foreign Languages & Literature, Tainan, Taiwan.
来源期刊	LIFE WRITING
ISSN	1448-4528
EISSN	1751-2964
出版年	2018
卷号	15 期号:4 页码:505-521
英文摘要	Reading Julie Otsuka's, When the Emperor was Divine, this article analyses the novel's relationship with life writing, memory and the present. Blurring the line between fact and fiction, Otsuka's novel enters the field of life writing as a semi-biographical family memoir, loosely based on the wartime experiences of her mother's family. It also creatively and skilfully invites readers to make intertextual connections with such internees' memoirs as Mine Okubo's Citizen 13660 and Yoshiko Uchida's Desert Exile, and incorporates two first-person narrative forms, letters and confession, to engage readers in the generation of postmemory. As a Sansei, Otsuka may have started writing the novel as a way to involve herself in an evolving relationship with the past events and people. Yet, her novel serves as a mnemonic trigger that prompts the reader to remember what happened to Japanese Americans during WWII, while associating the meaning of the past to today's post-9/11 world. Storing, transferring and reincorporating the cultural memory of the Japanese-American internment throughout generations, Otsuka's narrative suggests the limits of ethnic minority groups' self-representation, the ethical demand to keep marginalised memories of past violence alive and collective, and the importance of the freedom to speak and write about one's life.
英文关键词	When the Emperor was Divine Japanese-American internment life writing cultural memory
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	AHCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000447180300003
WOS类目	Literature
WOS研究方向	Literature
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/361983
作者单位	[Liao, Pei-chen] Natl Cheng Kung Univ, Dept Foreign Languages & Literature, Tainan, Taiwan
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Liao, Pei-chen. Life Writing, Cultural Memory, and Historical Mediation in Julie Otsuka's When the Emperor was Divine[J],2018,15(4):505-521.
APA	Liao, Pei-chen.(2018).Life Writing, Cultural Memory, and Historical Mediation in Julie Otsuka's When the Emperor was Divine.LIFE WRITING,15(4),505-521.
MLA	Liao, Pei-chen."Life Writing, Cultural Memory, and Historical Mediation in Julie Otsuka's When the Emperor was Divine".LIFE WRITING 15.4(2018):505-521.

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