![]() After returning to Seattle, she experiences several such “displacements” until she’s trapped in the past for almost a year. ![]() The next day, she experiences another temporal displacement and goes through eviction with other Japanese Americans before coming back to the present. ![]() Displacement brings together several current conversations in camp history: intergenerational trauma, the relevance of camp history for present-day history, tracing genealogy, the tradition of resistance to incarceration, and Japanese American queer history.Īs a loosely autobiographical book, the main character “Kiku” is visiting San Francisco’s Japantown on a trip from Seattle when she’s pulled back into a scene from her grandmother’s past. But even for readers versed in this history, Kiku Hughes’s Displacement is a powerful innovation in camp literature and Japanese American literature overall. A time-travel graphic novel about intergenerational Japanese American camp history is a surprise. ![]()
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