1076 items
1076 items
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Julie Otsuka Interview Segment 13 (ddr-densho-1000-176-13)
Recovering from giving up painting; beginning to write: "I felt like I had nothing to lose"
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Julie Otsuka Interview Segment 18 (ddr-densho-1000-176-18)
Trying to find the balance between history and storytelling
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Julie Otsuka Interview Segment 12 (ddr-densho-1000-176-12)
Giving up painting and doing temp work in New York
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Julie Otsuka Interview Segment 19 (ddr-densho-1000-176-19)
Japanese American community reactions to novel; use in schools
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Julie Otsuka Interview Segment 10 (ddr-densho-1000-176-10)
Parents' non-reaction to decision to study art: "they've always been very hands-off"
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Julie Otsuka Interview Segment 15 (ddr-densho-1000-176-15)
Enrolling in graduate school, researching first chapter of novel through World War II photographs
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Julie Otsuka Interview Segment 4 (ddr-densho-1000-176-4)
Finding out more about maternal grandparents' lives
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Julie Otsuka Interview Segment 14 (ddr-densho-1000-176-14)
Enrolling in writing workshops, writing comic stories
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Julie Otsuka Interview Segment 23 (ddr-densho-1000-176-23)
Discussion of one of the book's characters, future projects
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Julie Otsuka Interview Segment 17 (ddr-densho-1000-176-17)
The process of writing novel, inspiration from everyday life experiences
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Julie Otsuka Interview Segment 6 (ddr-densho-1000-176-6)
Parents' postwar experiences: meeting and getting married
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Julie Otsuka Interview Segment 3 (ddr-densho-1000-176-3)
Mother's family background: born in California, parents Japanese immigrants
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Julie Otsuka Interview Segment 5 (ddr-densho-1000-176-5)
Remembering mother's stories of concentration camp experience
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Julie Otsuka Interview Segment 7 (ddr-densho-1000-176-7)
Childhood in Palo Alto, California: hobbies and interests
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Julie Otsuka Interview Segment 20 (ddr-densho-1000-176-20)
Learning more about Japanese American identity and mother's values through writing novel
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Julie Otsuka Interview Segment 21 (ddr-densho-1000-176-21)
Personal reactions to success of first novel
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Julie Otsuka Interview Segment 8 (ddr-densho-1000-176-8)
Learning about incarceration late in life
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Sharon Tanagi Aburano Interview II Segment 8 (ddr-densho-1000-209-8)
Description of George Townsend
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Sharon Tanagi Aburano Interview II Segment 21 (ddr-densho-1000-209-21)
Receiving medical training at the Mayo Clinic
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Sharon Tanagi Aburano Interview II Segment 14 (ddr-densho-1000-209-14)
Helping organize chairs that were donated to camp by outside churches