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"body": "<div class=\"mw-parser-output\">\n <div id=\"databox-Books\" style=\"display:none;\">\n <p>\n Title:Tule Lake;\nAuthor:Edward Miyakawa;\nIllustrator:;\nOrigTitle:;\nCountry:;\nLanguage:;\nSeries:;\nGenre:Drama;\nPublisher:House by the Sea Publishing Company;\nPubDate:1979;\nCurrentPublisher:;\nCurrentPubDate:;\nMediaType:;\nPages:328;\nAwards:;\nISBN:;\nWorldCatLink:\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"http://www.worldcat.org/title/tule-lake/oclc/5350263\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n http://www.worldcat.org/title/tule-lake/oclc/5350263\n </a>\n ;\n </p>\n </div>\n <div class=\"floatright\">\n </div>\n <div class=\"rgonly\">\n <!--\"rgdatabox-CoreDisplay\" removed-->\n <div id=\"rgdatabox-Core\" style=\"display:none;\">\n <p>\n RGMediaType:books;\nTitle:Tule Lake;\nCreators:;\nInterestLevel:Grades 9-12; Adult;\nReadingLevel:;\nGuidedReadingLevel:;\nLexile:;\nTheme:Evils of racism; Family – blessing or curse; Importance of community; Individual versus society;\nGenre:Historical Fiction;\nPoV:told from the perspective of a Kibei man;\nRelatedEvents:;\nAvailability:Available;\nFreeWebVersion:Yes;\nPrimarySecondary:;\nHasTeachingAids:No;\nWarnings:;\nDenshoTopic:;\nGeography:;\nChronology:1940s;\nFacility:Tule Lake [10] - Newell, California;\n </p>\n </div>\n </div>\n <p>\n Novel by Edward Miyakawa set in the eponymous concentration camp.\n <i>\n Tule Lake\n </i>\n was likely the first novel by a Japanese American set in one of the World War II concentration camps to be published when it first appeared in 1979. It was also notable for its unflinching portrayal of life in the most repressive of the camps.\n </p>\n <p>\n Author Edward Miyakawa (1934– ) grew up in the Sacramento area and was incarcerated with his family at\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Tule_Lake\" title=\"Tule Lake\">\n Tule Lake\n </a>\n as a child. Years later, while working as an architect in Berkeley, the 1965 Watts Riots took place, inspiring him to write about his reactions to it, which in turn led to his wanting to write about the Japanese American incarceration experience. But interviews with his parents and their friends led only their telling him \"funny stories\" about their incarceration. Subsequent research led him to the two early books generated out of the\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Japanese_American_Evacuation_and_Resettlement_Study\" title=\"Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study\">\n Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study\n </a>\n ,\n <i>\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/The_Spoilage_(book)\" title=\"The Spoilage (book)\">\n The Spoilage\n </a>\n </i>\n (1946) and\n <i>\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/The_Salvage_(book)\" title=\"The Salvage (book)\">\n The Salvage\n </a>\n </i>\n (1952), the first of which ends up focusing on Tule Lake. In a 2007 oral history, he said about those books, \"it just absolutely blew my mind.\"\n <sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-ftnt_ref1_1-0\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_note-ftnt_ref1-1\">\n [1]\n </a>\n </sup>\n He began to write a novel about the Tule Lake experience based in part on\n <i>\n The Spoilage\n </i>\n while also drawing on elements of his family's story, working on it over the next decade while continuing his work as an architect. Unsuccessful in generating interest from a mainstream publisher, he eventually found a small publishing company run by a friend in Oregon, where Miyakawa and his family also lived, and it was published in 1979. He reported that the book sold around 8,000 copies.\n <sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-ftnt_ref2_2-0\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_note-ftnt_ref2-2\">\n [2]\n </a>\n </sup>\n After the 2001 terrorist attacks in the U.S., the novel was republished in 2002 by Trafford Publishing of Victoria, British Columbia.\n </p>\n <p>\n The book is told in the first person voice of Ben Seiichi Senzaki, a\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Kibei\" title=\"Kibei\">\n Kibei\n </a>\n who had lived in Japan until age ten, before returning to his family in Sacramento. His father is a successful\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Issei\" title=\"Issei\">\n Issei\n </a>\n newspaper publisher and pharmacy owner, and Ben becomes a Harvard educated lawyer while his younger brother Gordie is a pharmacy student at USC and active member of the\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Japanese_American_Citizens_League\" title=\"Japanese American Citizens League\">\n Japanese American Citizens League\n </a>\n when the war breaks out. The novel portrays the thriving Japanese community in Sacramento that is destroyed by the incarceration, then follows Ben and his family and friends to Tule Lake, where they become caught up in the particular difficulties specific to that camp. As a fully bilingual lawyer, Ben reluctantly becomes a leader at Tule Lake, but his refusal to fill out the\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Loyalty_questionnaire\" title=\"Loyalty questionnaire\">\n loyalty questionnaire\n </a>\n and penchant for being involved in the growing unrest draws the ire of administration and lands him the stockade, while his disdain for the growing Japanese nationalism in the camp lands him on the blacklists of nationalist groups, putting his life in jeopardy. The novel portrays many of the key episodes in the history of Tule Lake through Ben and the many supporting characters.\n </p>\n <p>\n Reviewer Neil Nakadate of\n <i>\n MELUS\n </i>\n hailed the book as taking \"a significant place in the literature on internment\" given the dearth of Japanese American literature to that point that dealt with that experience. Comparing Ben to Ralph Ellison's invisible man and John Okada's\n <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/No-No Boy (book)/\" title=\"No-No Boy (book)\">\n No-No Boy\n </a>\n , Nakadate writes that \"Miyakawa's greatest strength may be his insistence on the darker realities of relocation, the realities that mock our need always to find some sort of consolation in a debacle of our past.\"\n <sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-ftnt_ref3_3-0\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_note-ftnt_ref3-3\">\n [3]\n </a>\n </sup>\n In the\n <i>\n Hawaii Herald\n </i>\n , Warren Iwasa calls\n <i>\n Tule Lake\n </i>\n an \"ambitious novel\" whose \"strength is its brilliant depiction of Japanese culture in America prior to the war and the somewhat different culture of the camps.\"\n <sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-ftnt_ref4_4-0\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_note-ftnt_ref4-4\">\n [4]\n </a>\n </sup>\n In\n <i>\n The Asian Reporter\n </i>\n , Douglas Spangle calls it \"... a well turned realist novel as ell as an act of bravery and personal witness.\"\n <sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-ftnt_ref5_5-0\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_note-ftnt_ref5-5\">\n [5]\n </a>\n </sup>\n In 2005, the Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission selected\n <i>\n Tule Lake\n </i>\n as one of the 100 Oregon books for the years 1800 to 2000 \"that exemplify the best of Oregon's rich literary heritage.\"\n <sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-ftnt_ref6_6-0\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_note-ftnt_ref6-6\">\n [6]\n </a>\n </sup>\n </p>\n <div id=\"authorByline\">\n <b>\n Authored by\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Brian_Niiya\" title=\"Brian Niiya\">\n Brian Niiya\n </a>\n , Densho\n </b>\n </div>\n <div id=\"citationAuthor\" style=\"display:none;\">\n Niiya, Brian\n </div>\n</div>\n",
"moreinfo": "<div class=\"section\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n <h2>\n <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n For More Information\n </span>\n </h2>\n <div class=\"section_content\">\n <p>\n Miyakawa, Edward.\n <i>\n Tule Lake\n </i>\n . Waldport, Oregon: House by the Sea Publishing Company, 1979. Victoria, British Columbia: Trafford Publishing, 2002.\n </p>\n <p>\n Degi, Bruce. \"Lives Interrupted: A Brief Look at Eight Novels Based on the Japanese-American Internment Experience.\"\n <i>\n CEA Critic\n </i>\n 70.3 (2008): 56–66.\n </p>\n <p>\n Edward Miyakawa Oral History. Aug. 18, 2007 by Elizabeth Uhlig. “Japanese-American Association of Lane County, Oregon Oral History Collection.\"\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/digitalcollections/jaa/miyakawa.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/digitalcollections/jaa/miyakawa.html\n </a>\n .\n </p>\n <p>\n <i>\n Tule Lake\n </i>\n at Trafford Publishing site,\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"http://bookstore.trafford.com/Products/SKU-000133405/Tule-Lake.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n http://bookstore.trafford.com/Products/SKU-000133405/Tule-Lake.aspx\n </a>\n .\n </p>\n </div>\n</div>",
"reviews": "<div class=\"section\" id=\"Reviews\">\n <h2>\n <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Reviews\">\n Reviews\n </span>\n </h2>\n <div class=\"section_content\">\n <p>\n Iwasa, Warren. \"Camp Life.\"\n <i>\n Hawaii Herald\n </i>\n , Aug. 1, 2003, A8–9. [\"\n <i>\n Tule Lake\n </i>\n is an ambitious novel, a literary construct with elegant and evocative sentences. It is not wholly successful; its transitions are sometimes elliptical and hard to follow.\"]\n </p>\n <p>\n Nakadate, Neil.\n <i>\n MELUS\n </i>\n 8.2 (Summer 1981): 100–04. [\"Miyakawa’s greatest strength may be his insistence on the darker realities of relocation, the realities that mock our need always to find some sort of consolation in a debacle of our past.\"]\n </p>\n <p>\n Spangle, Douglas.\n <i>\n <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"http://www.asianreporter.com/reviews/2003/36-03tulelake.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n The Asian Reporter\n </a>\n </i>\n , Sept. 2–8, 2003, pp. 13, 16. [\"… a well turned realist novel as ell as an act of bravery and personal witness.\"]\n </p>\n <p>\n Kinoshita, Lisa. \"\n <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"http://www.iexaminer.org/archives_80/80_09.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n Tule Lake\n </a>\n .\"\n <i>\n International Examiner\n </i>\n 7.9 (Sept. 15–Oct. 15, 1980): 14.\n </p>\n </div>\n</div>",
"footnotes": "<div class=\"section\" id=\"Footnotes\">\n <h2>\n <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Footnotes\">\n Footnotes\n </span>\n </h2>\n <div class=\"section_content\">\n <div class=\"reflist\" style=\"list-style-type: decimal;\">\n <div class=\"mw-references-wrap\">\n <ol class=\"references\">\n <li id=\"cite_note-ftnt_ref1-1\">\n <span class=\"mw-cite-backlink\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_ref-ftnt_ref1_1-0\">\n ↑\n </a>\n </span>\n <span class=\"reference-text\">\n Edward Miyakawa Oral History, Part 4, Aug. 18, 2007 by Elizabeth Uhlig, \"Japanese-American Association of Lane County, Oregon Oral History Collection,\" p. 3, accessed on March 26, 2013 at\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/digitalcollections/jaa/miyakawa.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/digitalcollections/jaa/miyakawa.html\n </a>\n .\n </span>\n </li>\n <li id=\"cite_note-ftnt_ref2-2\">\n <span class=\"mw-cite-backlink\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_ref-ftnt_ref2_2-0\">\n ↑\n </a>\n </span>\n <span class=\"reference-text\">\n Miyakawa Oral History, p. 7.\n </span>\n </li>\n <li id=\"cite_note-ftnt_ref3-3\">\n <span class=\"mw-cite-backlink\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_ref-ftnt_ref3_3-0\">\n ↑\n </a>\n </span>\n <span class=\"reference-text\">\n Neil Nakadate,\n <i>\n MELUS\n </i>\n 8.2 (Summer 1981): 100–04.\n </span>\n </li>\n <li id=\"cite_note-ftnt_ref4-4\">\n <span class=\"mw-cite-backlink\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_ref-ftnt_ref4_4-0\">\n ↑\n </a>\n </span>\n <span class=\"reference-text\">\n Warren Iwasa, \"Camp Life\"\n <i>\n Hawaii Herald\n </i>\n , Aug. 1, 2003, A8–A9.\n </span>\n </li>\n <li id=\"cite_note-ftnt_ref5-5\">\n <span class=\"mw-cite-backlink\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_ref-ftnt_ref5_5-0\">\n ↑\n </a>\n </span>\n <span class=\"reference-text\">\n Douglas Spangle,\n <i>\n The Asian Reporter\n </i>\n , Sept. 2–8, 2003, pp. 13, 16, accessed on March 25, 2013 at\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"http://www.asianreporter.com/reviews/2003/36-03tulelake.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n http://www.asianreporter.com/reviews/2003/36-03tulelake.htm\n </a>\n .\n </span>\n </li>\n <li id=\"cite_note-ftnt_ref6-6\">\n <span class=\"mw-cite-backlink\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_ref-ftnt_ref6_6-0\">\n ↑\n </a>\n </span>\n <span class=\"reference-text\">\n \"The 100 Oregon Books,\" Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission website, accessed in March 27, 2013 at\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"http://www.ochcom.org/100books/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n http://www.ochcom.org/100books/\n </a>\n .\n </span>\n </li>\n </ol>\n </div>\n </div>\n <!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCached time: 20230521153715\nCache expiry: 86400\nDynamic content: false\nComplications: []\nCPU time usage: 0.026 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.033 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 428/1000000\nPost‐expand include size: 6889/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 1146/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 5/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0/100\nUnstrip recursion depth: 0/20\nUnstrip post‐expand size: 2646/5000000 bytes\nExtLoops count: 0\n-->\n <!--\nTransclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)\n100.00% 21.680 1 -total\n 14.28% 3.095 1 Template:Reflist\n 10.74% 2.329 1 Template:RGDatabox-Core\n 9.60% 2.081 1 Template:Databox-Books\n 6.27% 1.359 1 Template:AuthorByline\n 6.20% 1.345 1 Template:Published\n 5.94% 1.287 1 Template:FindAtIA\n 5.83% 1.264 1 Template:publish-rgonly\n-->\n <!-- Saved in parser cache with key encycmw:pcache:idhash:2345-0!canonical and timestamp 20230521153715 and revision id 35024\n -->\n </div>\n</div>",
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