Naomi 柴田直美 Shibata, “Bend with Wind: The Life, Family & Writings of Grace Eto-Shibata”, 2014 was a Japanese-American daughter memoir of her Nisei mother. A memoir is a narrative written from the author perspective, about an important part of there life. A memoir does not include the entire life span; an autobiography is life span narrative (not only important times). This definition defines what Naomi daughter of Grace Shibata has written; that is, the difficulty times in her family history with her mother Grace at the family center.
120,000 Japanese-Americans in World War II went to one of the internment camps listed below.
120,000 Japanese-Americans in World War II went to one of the internment camps listed below.
- Gila River
- Granola
- Heart Mountain
- Jerome
- Manzanar
- Minidoka
- Poston
- Rohwer
- Topaz
- Tule Lake
Naomi 柴田直美 Shibata, “Bend with Wind: The Life, Family & Writings of Grace Eto-Shibata”, 2014 was a Japanese-American daughter memoir of her Nisei mother. A “memoir”, unlike an “autobiography” (of one’s life) is the author focused on an aspect of one’s life (not the lifespan). For all 120,000 Japanese-Americans in the internment camps (listed above); the internment was the most significant aspect of their lives.
