BOOKS - Voices of Angel Island: Inscriptions and Immigrant Poetry, 1910-1945
Voices of Angel Island: Inscriptions and Immigrant Poetry, 1910-1945 - Charles Egan December 24, 2020 PDF  BOOKS
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Voices of Angel Island: Inscriptions and Immigrant Poetry, 1910-1945
Author: Charles Egan
Year: December 24, 2020
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 31 MB
Language: English

Voices of Angel Island is a historical and literary anthology of the writings of immigrants detained at Angel Island, designed to provide a conduit for readers today to connect with early-20th-century perspectives on the process of and "becoming American. and "The Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco Bay has been called the and "Ellis Island of the West, and " but its purpose was quite different. It was primarily a detention center, established in large part to discourage immigration by Asians. The station barracks contain an extraordinary hundreds of poems and prose records in half a dozen languages are on the walls, inscribed by immigrant detainees between 1910 and 1940, and by POWs and and "enemy aliens and " during World War II. Charles Egan draws on over a decade's work deciphering the wall inscriptions by Japanese, Chinese, Korean, European, and other detainees to assemble a selection of their writings in this book, alongside literary materials from Bay Area ethnic newspapers. While each inscription tells the story of an individual, taken together they illuminate the historical, economic, and cultural forces that shaped the lives of ordinary people in the early 20th century.

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