The Internment of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War was a blatant act of racial-based injustice in Canadian history. In this study, the term "Internment" encompasses all the events that resulted from the abrogation of Japanese Canadian rights of citizenship--mass uprooting from their homes and communities in British Columbia (BC), dispossession, forced relocation to internment camps in interior BC, road camps, and sugar beet farms, followed by forced exile from BC to Japan, or forced migration and assimilation across Canada. The twelve participants in this study are Canadians of Japanese heritage who were born after the Internment and whose parent(s) or grandparent(s) experienced a form of Internment. Using a hermeneutic phenomenological approach, we explored intergenerational communication of the Internment experience and the lived experience of growing up in the aftermath of the Internment. The findings revealed alternative responses and outcomes to historical trauma theory. Threaded throughout these stories and responses were prevailing themes reflecting values of gaman and enryo, in addition to resilience and empowerment.

This study aims to examine critiques of social injustices expressed through the medium of literature by Native peoples of Canada and Japanese Canadians. My objectives are to explore literary representations of their struggles and examine how these representations and the struggles intersect. My study uses the following: “Coyote and the Enemy Aliens” by Thomas King, My Name is Seepeetza by Shirley Sterling, Obasan by Joy Kogawa, The Kappa Child by Hiromi Goto, Burning Vision by Marie Clements, and “The Uranium Leaking from Port Radium and Rayrock Mines is Killing Us” by Richard Van Camp. The findings reveal Canada’s nation state still rooted in a White settler constructed society, and a legacy of imperialism in the form of globalization that destroys Native peoples’ lands. My thesis concludes with the im/possibilities of reconciliation, also considering my own role as a person of colour, a temporary settler from Japan.

The thesis examines the literary archive of the Japanese diaspora in North America and uncovers evidence of an intergenerational transmission of trauma after the internment of all peoples of Japanese descent in America during World War Two. Their experience of migration, discrimination and displacement was exacerbated by the internment, the single most influential episode in their history which had a profound effect on subsequent generations. It is argued the trauma of their experiences can be located in their writing and, drawing on the works of Freud and trauma theoreticians Cathy Caruth and Ruth Leys in particular, the thesis constructs a theoretical framework which may be applied to post-internment Japanese diasporic writing to reveal the traces of trauma in all generations, traces that are linked to what Freud referred to as a posterior moment that triggered an earlier trauma which the subject may not have experienced personally but which may be lodged in her / her psyche. An examination of the literature of the Japanese diaspora shows that trauma is carried in the language itself and impacted upon the collective psyche of the entire community. The theoretical model is used to read the tanka poetry written by the immigrant generation, a range of texts by the first American-born generation (including an in-depth analysis of four texts spanning several decades) and the texts written by the third-generation, many of whom did not experience the internment themselves so their motivation and the influence of the internment differed greatly from earlier generations. The thesis concludes with an analysis of David Mura's identification of the link between identity, sexuality and the influence of the internment experience as transmitted by his parents. The future of the Japanese American community and their relationship with their past traumatic experience also makes its way into the conclusion.

Julie Otsuka's novel When the Emperor Was Divine (2002) retells the trauma of the Japanese American imprisonment through the lens of fictional characters taken from their "white house on the wide street in Berkeley not far from the sea" to "the scorched white earth of the desert" (74, 23). The Topaz Internment Camp in Utah's Sevier Desert, where these characters were forcibly relocated, sits on the site of an ancient inland sea, Lake Bonneville, which submerged that barren desert ground some ten thousand years ago. The paleolake serves as a displaced but active character in Otsuka's novel that shapes the characters' understanding of their traumatic experience and their ability to work through it. Rather than serving as an actor in disorientation, the ancient sea actually enables reorientation, affording the characters a new understanding of self and place. In developing this sea-oriented analysis of the internment, I call upon theory from trauma scholars Judith Herman and Dominick LaCapra and archipelagic thinkers like Epeli Hau'ofa and Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner, who have reoriented our understandings of islands, continents, and the concept of home. With these thinkers as interlocutors, my archipelagic reading of When the Emperor Was Divine advances a model for understanding the ocean as a mediator and a symbol through which traumatic experiences are acted out, worked through, refracted, and reoriented. This essay relies on the interaction of"”or the potential for mutual illumination between"”two emergent arenas of study: critical desert studies and critical ocean and island studies. It thus becomes a frame through which archipelagic thought can become a collaborator for the contingent working through of trauma and, ultimately, a reimagination of notions of home and reorientation.

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Esta pesquisa analisa as medidas sócio-educativas elencadas pelo artigo 112 do Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente, a partir da realidade do Centro de Internação de Adolescentes de Jataí (CIAJ), Goiás, especialmente, das internações de adolescentes ocorridas nos anos de 2007 e 2008. Tem o objetivo de verificar a efetividade da medida sócio-educativa de internação. Para isso, o primeiro capítulo apresenta um panorama da compreensão histórica do lugar das crianças e dos adolescentes na sociedade, em particular, na Bíblia, na Grécia e na Roma Antigas, na Idade Média e no contexto brasileiro atual. O segundo capítulo sintetiza o progresso da legislação tutelar de crianças e adolescentes no mundo e no Brasil em especial, problematizando o debate da redução da maioridade penal e as reformulações legislativas expressas pelo Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente, bem como as medidas sócio-educativas elencadas pelo artigo 112. O terceiro capítulo aborda e avalia o Centro de Internação de Adolescentes de Jataí (CIAJ), seu complexo, suas características, sua equipe de trabalho e a situação e a trajetória dos adolescentes internados em 2007 e em 2008. Por fim, a pesquisa aponta que, em Jataí, a efetividade da medida sócio-educativa de internação e, de igual modo, das medidas de liberdade assistida e de prestação de serviços à comunidade encontram-se prejudicadas justamente pela falta da implantação dos preceitos consignados no Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente por parte do Poder Público, voltados à educação e à socialização de adolescentes envolvidos na prática de crimes ou de contravenções penais. / This research analyzes the social-educational acts stipulated by the article 112 of the Childs and Teenagers Statute, starting from the reality of the Teenager Internment Center of Jataí (CIAJ), Goiás, especially, of the teenagers internments happened in the years of 2007 and 2008. It has the objective of verifying the effectiveness of social-educational act of internment. So, the first chapter presents a panorama of the historical understanding of childrens and teenagers place in society, in matter, in the Bible, in Old Greece and Old Rome, in Middle Age and in current Brazilian context. The second chapter synthesizes the progress of the childrens and teenagers guardian legislation in the world and in Brazil especially, problematizing the debate of the reduction of penal majority and the legislative reformulations of the Childs and Teenagers Statute, as well as the social-educational acts stipulated by the article 112. The third chapter approaches and evaluates the Teenager Internment Center of Jataí (CIAJ), its facilities, its characteristics, its work team and the situation and path of the teenagers interned in 2007 and in 2008. Finally, the research points that, in Jataí, the effectiveness of the social-educational act of internment and, in equal way, the social-educational act of attended freedom and the act of services rendered to community, is prejudiced exactly for the lack of implantation of precepts consigned in the Childs and Teenager Statute by the Public Power, focus on the education and socialization for teenagers which are involved in practice of crimes or of penal misdemeanors.

This study examines the representation of Japanese American experiences in internment camps during World War II in children's and adolescent literature. This study focuses on a specific set of children's and adolescent books about one time period in the history of Japanese Americans. I have formulated two major research questions for this study. The first question: What are the characteristics of the selected children's and adolescent books about Japanese American experiences during World War II? The second question: How do the selected children's and adolescent books portray the experiences and responses of Japanese Americans during World War II?I selected fourteen books for inclusion in this study and analyzed the books related to my research questions. These books are organized into three genres: picture books, historical fiction, and nonfiction. The research methodology for this study is qualitative content analysis that includes methods for data collection and analysis and descriptions of the books and illustrations. I used the research questions to first examine books in each of the three genres and then make comparisons across the three genres.The findings based on the first research question include that the books are based on the research and experiences of both authors and illustrators and have a range of time periods from before the war to after the war. The findings also show that in the books, the authors and Japanese Americans express their criticism of Japanese Americans' experiences in the difficult situations related to the internment camps. They criticize the treatment of Japanese Americans by the U.S. government and discrimination against Japanese Americans.The analysis of the books based on the second research question provides insights into the experiences of Japanese Americans and how they felt, thought, and acted. The books portray the prejudice and discrimination faced by Japanese Americans from the point of immigrating to the United States and even after the war. The most important finding is that the books portray Japanese American children as creating lives of significance in the difficult conditions of assembly centers and internment camps.

In “‘Bury Your Head Between My Knees and Seek Pardon’: Gender, Sexuality, and National Conflict in John Okada’s 1957 novel, No-No Boy,” I analyze the ways in which the complexities of gendered sexuality expressed by protagonist Ichiro Yamada intersect with post-World War II and Internment-era national identifications for American nisei. I demonstrate that this apparent story of one man’s pursuit to resolve his conflict over national identity is, in reality, a tour de force of literary subversion that not only destabilizes the subterfuge that surrounded internment but also—in its deliberate failure to resolve questions of national conflict on the basis of masculine and heterosexual norms—encourages skepticism about the larger structures of order that allowed internment to happen.

A hiperlipemia causa sérias complicações aos equinos hospitalizados, principalmente quando associada ao estresse, doenças e traumas. Tratamentos convencionais com soluções de heparina, glicose a 5%, insulina, entre outras, têm sido utilizados em equídeos predispostos, mas são questionados quanto ao seu real efeito. O interesse e as pesquisas em relação à utilização da nutrição clínica no equino, em especial a nutrição parenteral, vêm crescendo. Sua ação visa evitar a doença e o catabolismo através da regulação do balanço energético negativo, inclusive servindo de adjuvante às terapias já implementadas no tratamento da doença primária, fornecendo o requerimento básico nutricional para a manutenção e recuperação do organismo. Para avaliar a eficácia das soluções de nutrição parenteral em equinos que desenvolveram hiperlipidemia durante a internação, foram avaliados 14 equinos atendidos com afecções diversas e que apresentaram triglicérides séricos (TG) acima de 150mg/dl. Os mesmo foram divididos em dois grupos: grupo controle (G1), sem interferência do manejo e grupo tratamento (G2), que recebeu nutrição parenteral parcial sem lipídeos. Tais soluções eram compostas de glicose a 50%, aminoácido a 10%, oligoelementos, complexo vitamínico e eletrólitos e foram infundidas até a resolução da hiperlipidemia. Os animais dos dois grupos foram monitorados diariamente em relação aos valores de glicemia, triglicérides e colesterol. A média do tempo de redução dos TG no G1 foi de 209,2 ± 131,9 horas e no G2 foi de 34,9 ± 41,8 horas, com diferença estatística entre eles. Os valores de colesterol não acompanharam a elevação dos TG. Em relação à perda de peso e escore corporal, os dois grupos apresentaram redução durante a internação, sem diferença estatística entre eles. Nenhum animal do G2 desenvolveu hiperlipemia, ao contrário do G1, em que cinco equinos apresentaram, em algum momento da internação, triglicérides acima de 500mg/dl. Embora outros critérios devam ser utilizados na escolha dos pacientes que necessitam deste tipo de tratamento devido principalmente aos custos e necessidade de constante monitorização, conclui-se que a nutrição parenteral é um método rápido e seguro para a prevenção da hiperlipemia em equinos com hiperlipidemia durante a internação por outras enfermidades. / The hyperlipemia cause serious complications for hospitalized horses, especially when associated with stress, diseases and traumas. Conventional treatments with solutions of heparin, 5% glucose, insulin, among others, have been used in susceptible equine, but they are asked about their real purpose. The interest and research on the use of clinical nutrition in the horse, especially parenteral nutrition, growing. Its action is to avoid disease and catabolism by regulating the negative energy balance, including serving as adjuvant therapies have been implemented in the treatment of primary disease, providing the basic nutritional requirement for the maintenance and recovery of the body. To evaluate the effectiveness of parenteral nutrition solutions in horses that developed hyperlipidemia during hospitalization were evaluated 14 horses treated for various diseases and who had serum triglycerides (TG) above 150mg/dl. The same were divided into two groups: control group (G1), without interference from management and treatment group (G2), which received partial parenteral nutrition without lipids. Such solutions were composed of 50% glucose, 10% amino acid, trace elements, electrolytes and vitamin and were infused until resolution of hyperlipidemia. The animals of both groups were monitored daily in relation to blood glucose, triglycerides and cholesterol. The median reduction in TG G1 was 209.2 ± 131.9 hours and G2 was 34.9 ± 41.8 hours, with no statistical difference between them. Cholesterol values did not follow the elevation of TG. In relation to weight loss and body score, both groups decreased during hospitalization, with no statistical difference between them. No animals developed hyperlipidemia G2, unlike the G1, in which five horses had, at some time in hospital, triglycerides greater than 500mg/dl. Although other criteria should be used to select patients in need of such treatment primarily due to cost and the need for constant monitoring, it is concluded that parenteral nutrition is a rapid and reliable method for the prevention of hyperlipemia with hyperlipidemia in horses during the hospitalization for other diseases.

Thesis advisor: Paul S. Gray / Can a vivid presentation about a tragic chapter of history elicit in viewers an empathetic reaction, as well as evidence of the telescopic perspective Mills[1] ([1959] 2000) described as the "sociological imagination"? Does the addition of victims' voices make a noticeable difference in their response to the historical event, as well contemporary controversies? Some scholars propose that oral histories, especially witness testimonies, have the potential to reach audiences more deeply than facts alone. "Narratives," as K. Slobin observed, "unfold with flesh and blood...encouraging empathy, identification and a humanization of content" (in Bochner and Ellis, 1992:171).[2] But, little systematic research has examined how or to what extent personal testimony may encourage empathetic understanding and a broader, more nuanced understanding of social problems. In an era where entertainment content skews toward "reality" programming and technology supersedes face-to-face interactions, the challenge to pierce cultural white noise is great. Educators, then, must figure out ways to counteract the desensitization, apathy and cynicism that follow these trends--but in ways that are proven, effective and lasting. My research sought to discover if victim narratives help students connect intellectually and emotionally with lessons about social justice. Thirteen undergraduate classes were exposed to three variations of a fact-based, multimedia presentation about Japanese internment in America during WWII. Each presentation included the same photographs, newsreel, and factual information. Presentations varied, however, in their use of survivor testimony and in the manner of its incorporation (video versus written accounts). Two groups of the sample were exposed to survivors describing their experiences in the internment camps. All groups completed surveys, and 21 participants gave extensive interviews. Data analysis examined information recall, sociological perspective, emotional response, empathetic identification and predictions of future behavior. The experiment generated much-needed empirical data on the efficacy of testimony and its ability to shape attitudes, broaden world view, and possibly influence behavior. These findings will assist educators in anticipating outcomes associated with various heuristic strategies, especially those including witness testimonies. [1] Mills, C. Wright. 1959. The Sociological Imagination. New York: Oxford, 2000. [2] Bochner, Arthur P. and Caroyln Ellis. 1992. "Personal Narrative as a Social Approach to Interpersonal Communication." Communication Theory 2(2)165-172. Comment from K. Slobin is listed as a personal communication with the authors in February 1991. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2012. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Sociology.