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An Expository Essay on the Role of Silence in Surviving Adversity: Stories from Japanese American Internment Survivors and Their Families
Proceedings of International Conference on Humanities, Social and Education Sciences - 2022
Kelli Jeanne Ling
Dr. Omid Noroozi, Dr. Ismail Sahin
978-1-952092-33-6
79-94
In an expository essay format, the author (Kelli Ling) will discuss the writings of three Asian American authors – George Takei, Kimi Cunningham Grant, and Mako Nakagawa – all of whom experienced, either personally or through family members, the devastation and trauma of being forcibly imprisoned during WWII in Japanese Internment Camps in the interior of the United States. Through their poignant memoirs, Ling will discuss silence as a communicative construct within the frameworks of survival, face-saving and protecting one’s identity, reasserting unbroken loyalty to one’s country, and reharmonization of an ethnic community under extreme duress from societal discrimination. Textual evidence includes specific situations in the authors’ narratives where these individuals confront racism in society and how the deliberate act of silence, rather than being a symbol for complacency, was a valuable rhetorical device that enabled them and their families to survive years of adversity. These three writers each deliver commentaries about society's racist attitudes at the time and the implications of speaking out versus remaining silent during internment and years later. Moreover, this essay will take the position that the construct of silence, as a rhetorical device, rather than being a sign of weakness or complicity, reflects the strength of a community; and when that silence is broken, it too is a sacrifice for the benefit of others.
Ling, K.J. (2022). An Expository Essay on the Role of Silence in Surviving Adversity: Stories from Japanese American Internment Survivors and Their Families. In O. Noroozi & I. Sahin (Eds.), Proceedings of IHSES 2022-- International Conference on Humanities, Social and Education Sciences (pp. 79-94), Los Angeles, USA. ISTES Organization.
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