Short story: "The outcast" / "The alien within"
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Densho
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OBJECT ID
ddr-densho-468-68
PARENT COLLECTION
DESCRIPTION
Four typed drafts. First draft describes a Japanese American girl in the mid-20th century. Second, third, and fourth drafts describe incarceration. The story's name changes from "The outcast" to "The alien within" between drafts 2 and 3. Final draft has perspective shift from third-person narrator to first-person.
OBJECT GENRE
Manuscripts
OBJECT FORMAT
Document
TOPICS
- Arts and literature -- Literary arts -- Fiction
- Industry and employment -- Agriculture
- Identity and values -- Family
- Identity and values -- Nisei
- Identity and values -- Issei
- Immigration and citizenship -- Picture brides
- Identity and values -- Gender
- Community activities -- Funerals
- Industry and employment -- Barbering and hairdressing
- Geographic communities -- California -- Los Angeles
- Race and racism -- Cross-racial relations
- World War II -- Temporary Assembly Centers
- World War II -- Concentration camps -- Work and jobs
- World War II -- Mass removal ("evacuation")
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CONTRIBUTOR
Densho
PREFERRED CITATION
Courtesy of the Joseph Ishikawa Collection, Densho
RIGHTS
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
