Type of Document	Dissertation
Author	Louis, Shirley Sadayo
Author's Email Address	niklouis@yahoo.com
URN	etd-04142008-171449
Title	Shirley Temple Dreams
Degree	Doctor of Philosophy
Department	English, Department of
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Mark Winegardner Committee Chair Christopher Shinn Committee Member Julianna Baggot Committee Member Neil Jumonville Committee Member Robert Olen Butler Committee Member
Keywords	World War II Japanese-American Fiction Immigration+ Internment
Date of Defense	2008-04-09
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract Shirley Temple Dreams is a collection of linked stories about Japanese Americans before, during, and after World War II, the times ranging from the turn of the century to the postwar fifties. Eleven stories are structured into three parts: stories that are situated in Japan; stories in American internment camps; and stories of postwar diaspora and return. The collection opens with a story about a writer who realizes the centrality of stories in her life, and it closes with a story about a man who learns to share his stories. These stories are about passages—of time and place; of one generation that strides into the future and another that searches the past; of the move from foreign soil to the fields and forests of the western United States; of settlement, displacement, and resettlement. The stories are set against the backdrop of social trauma, but they are foremost about people—characters in trouble, man-made and self-made—and how they cope, survive, or fail. I have brought to these stories my interest in Japanese culture, literature, and folk lore as well as American popular culture. The tension between the two sides of the hyphenated identity, Japanese-American, is a major presence. Inclusion vs. exclusion, the group vs. the individual, duty vs. freedom are classical themes now seen through the lens of an “other.”
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