Relocating Authority

Mira Shimabukuro is lecturer in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at University of Washington, Bothell, where she teaches courses on the politics of language, literacy, and writing. Her creative work has been published in such journals as CALYX, Bamboo Ridge Quarterly, and Raven Chronicles, while her scholarship can be found in College English and Representations: Doing Asian American Rhetoric.

"A significant, often beautifully written book . . . Relocating Authority will make an important contribution to the field.”—John Duffy, University of Notre Dame"Mira Shimabukuro has awarded us a deeply inspiring study of how Japanese Americans used writing to resist and redress the mass incarceration they endured during World War II. Innovative in its methodology, dynamic in its interdisciplinary framework, and meticulous in its analysis, Relocating Authority engages writing to redress as incarceration camp literacy practice through the lens of rhetorical attendance, thus modeling a new way of seeing/listening for rhetoric that will greatly inform scholars and students from a variety of fields including rhetoric and writing studies and Asian American studies."—LuMing Mao, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio"This is original, cutting-edge work. Mira Shimabukuro sets a new standard in camp studies with her finely crafted writing and her framing of ​'writing-to-redress.​' Her recovery of this wide range of writing that challenges authority, much of it by women, is itself a significant act of redress that once again changes the way we look at the Japanese American response to incarceration​."​—Franke Abe, The International Examiner "[A] rewarding and informative read that takes the reader to some unexpected places.​"​—​Densho"[Shimabukuro] succeeds admirably in rendering her theorizing user-friendly for a general readership by a combination of sparkling prose and irradiating examples. . . . ​[Shimabukuro​] pays forward a family an​​d community legacy of Nikkei resistance activity. In so doing, she also has gained a place for herself in the pantheon of Japanese American resistance historiography.​"​​—​Nichi Bei