tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11380345.post41689881053145037..comments2024-03-17T12:16:42.048-07:00Comments on Civic Center: Asian Art 4: The Four Immigrants MangaCivic Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12362422142667230626noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11380345.post-35810387783243606252010-07-24T10:33:01.956-07:002010-07-24T10:33:01.956-07:00Dear Axel: I thought I'd discovered the book b...Dear Axel: I thought I'd discovered the book but I guess I'm late to the excavation site. The translator, Schodt, makes the same point as you in his foreword: "Tragiclaly, there are relativley few books in English of any sort on the first-generation Japanese Americans, the issei. Part of this is due to language problems, but it is due also to the human disaster of World War II...the experience of the camps--like the Holocaust for Jewish writers--was so overwhelming that it has dominated subsequent writing on Japanese Americans."Civic Centerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12362422142667230626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11380345.post-11108811167498904692010-07-24T01:35:21.275-07:002010-07-24T01:35:21.275-07:00Thanks for giving 4 Immigrants a plug. I really li...Thanks for giving 4 Immigrants a plug. I really like this book too, especially because it sheds a little light on life before World War II, the event which typically dominates accounts of Japanese American history.Axel Feldheimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12517904558156089265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11380345.post-51575813897740697062010-07-23T10:44:29.713-07:002010-07-23T10:44:29.713-07:00Dear Heidi: It is an early version of FotoTales, e...Dear Heidi: It is an early version of FotoTales, except he distills twenty years into 52 panels while mine was one year into 52 half-hour TV shows.Civic Centerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12362422142667230626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11380345.post-33732484433136733102010-07-23T07:27:45.095-07:002010-07-23T07:27:45.095-07:00An early version of Photo Tales.An early version of Photo Tales.Pura Vidahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10639091026818153187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11380345.post-77295819110223572742010-07-23T07:25:07.988-07:002010-07-23T07:25:07.988-07:00I'll check it out.I'll check it out.Pura Vidahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10639091026818153187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11380345.post-19296287678208298682010-07-22T21:34:59.350-07:002010-07-22T21:34:59.350-07:00Thanks for posting this. Big chunks of this book c...Thanks for posting this. Big chunks of this book can be read online at Google books-<br />http://books.google.com/books?id=fdgmSKAMVP0C&lpg=PA8&ots=MFTzsl7j31&dq=Henry%20Kiyama&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false<br /><br />It's still in print and available from the usual online sellers.Your driverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06406948739451124566noreply@blogger.com