Farewell_To_Manzanar

Farewell To Manzanar Houston and James D. Houston's novel, Farewell to Manzanar (1973), discusses the internment of Japanese-American people in a relocation camp from 1943-1945. The autobiographical work reveals, through the eyes of a Japanese American teenage girl, her inner struggle with her identity as a person of the Japanese race living in California during World War II. The novel explores the issues of gender culture, and race as important ideas that help Jeanne Wakatsuki to construct her own sense of identity and self-hood. Specifically, Farewell to Manzanar attempts to raise some significant questions: What is the role of a Japanese japanese, novel, manzanar, farewell, culture, american, through, role, race, jeanne, identity, girl, during, differences, world, work, woman, within, war, wakatsuki, values, tradtional, times, teenage, struggle, specifically, society, social, significant, shift, sense, self-hood, second, school, reveals, revealed