Date of Award
Fall 2022
Degree Type
Restricted to Claremont Colleges Dissertation
Degree Name
English, PhD
Program
School of Arts and Humanities
Advisor/Supervisor/Committee Chair
Wendy Martin
Dissertation or Thesis Committee Member
Eve Oishi
Dissertation or Thesis Committee Member
David Luis-Brown
Terms of Use & License Information
Rights Information
© 2022 Kimberly T Carroll
Keywords
American literature, Asian American literature, History, Indigneous literature, Veterans, War
Abstract
Twentieth-century American military campaigns in Asia transformed the landscape of Indigenous and Asian American writing. Their often-overlooked literature on war illuminates the unexpected social and political alliances between these communities as well as the various ways that military service and refugee status reshaped both. The novels that I explore here document these significant historical processes through various literary movements and critical periods of national and international transition. This dynamic literature chronicles how Indigenous cultures and Asian American communities navigated the threatened erasure of their identities in war (as captives, refugees, and military service members), forged new alliances to defend against continued infringements on their civil liberties from the civil rights era onward, and inspired the production of innovative forms of writing that offer healing for the marginalized, while presenting a more nuanced understanding of Americans at war.
ISBN
9798368472676
Recommended Citation
Carroll, Kimberly Teaman. (2022). Native Lands in Enemy Territory: Indigenous and Asian American Veteran Erasure and Resistance in the Literature of War. CGU Theses & Dissertations, 473. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/473.
