Heather Hathaway is Professor of English at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin and author of Caribbean Waves: Relocating Claude McKay and Paule Marshall.

• Prefatory Poem: "That Damned Fence," by Jim Yoshihara Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1: Topaz, A Literary Hotbed Chapter 1. After the Bombs: The Experience of Toyo Suyemoto Chapter 2. Writing as Resistance in Topaz: TREK and All Aboard Chapter 3. Toshio Mori: A Literary Life Derailed Chapter 4. Miné Okubo: An Aesthetic Life Launched Part 2: Writing Elsewhere Chapter 5. The Pulse of Amache/Granada Chapter 6. Dispatches from Tumultuous Tule Lake Chapter 7. Internment Novels: Toshio Mori's The Brothers Murata and Hiroshi Nakamura's Treadmill Chapter 8. Jerome's Magnet Chapter 9. Humiliation and Hope in Rohwer's The Pen Endnotes Further Reading Works Cited

Heather Hathaway's That Damned Fence provides the first ever in-depth study of the writing produced by Japanese Americans confined in the different WRA camps during World War II. Particularly novel and intriguing is how Hathaway connects the lived experience of confinement for the inmate authors with their writing.

Heather Hathaway is Professor of English at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin and author of Caribbean Waves: Relocating Claude McKay and Paule Marshall.

• Prefatory Poem: "That Damned Fence," by Jim Yoshihara Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1: Topaz, A Literary Hotbed Chapter 1. After the Bombs: The Experience of Toyo Suyemoto Chapter 2. Writing as Resistance in Topaz: TREK and All Aboard Chapter 3. Toshio Mori: A Literary Life Derailed Chapter 4. Miné Okubo: An Aesthetic Life Launched Part 2: Writing Elsewhere Chapter 5. The Pulse of Amache/Granada Chapter 6. Dispatches from Tumultuous Tule Lake Chapter 7. Internment Novels: Toshio Mori's The Brothers Murata and Hiroshi Nakamura's Treadmill Chapter 8. Jerome's Magnet Chapter 9. Humiliation and Hope in Rohwer's The Pen Endnotes Further Reading Works Cited

Heather Hathaway's That Damned Fence provides the first ever in-depth study of the writing produced by Japanese Americans confined in the different WRA camps during World War II. Particularly novel and intriguing is how Hathaway connects the lived experience of confinement for the inmate authors with their writing.

Heather Hathaway is Professor of English at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin and author of Caribbean Waves: Relocating Claude McKay and Paule Marshall.

• Prefatory Poem: "That Damned Fence," by Jim Yoshihara Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1: Topaz, A Literary Hotbed Chapter 1. After the Bombs: The Experience of Toyo Suyemoto Chapter 2. Writing as Resistance in Topaz: TREK and All Aboard Chapter 3. Toshio Mori: A Literary Life Derailed Chapter 4. Miné Okubo: An Aesthetic Life Launched Part 2: Writing Elsewhere Chapter 5. The Pulse of Amache/Granada Chapter 6. Dispatches from Tumultuous Tule Lake Chapter 7. Internment Novels: Toshio Mori's The Brothers Murata and Hiroshi Nakamura's Treadmill Chapter 8. Jerome's Magnet Chapter 9. Humiliation and Hope in Rohwer's The Pen Endnotes Further Reading Works Cited

Heather Hathaway's That Damned Fence provides the first ever in-depth study of the writing produced by Japanese Americans confined in the different WRA camps during World War II. Particularly novel and intriguing is how Hathaway connects the lived experience of confinement for the inmate authors with their writing.