front cover of I Call to Remembrance
I Call to Remembrance
Toyo Suyemoto's Years of Internment
Toyo Suyemoto and Edited by Susan B. Richardson
Rutgers University Press, 2007
Toyo Suyemoto is known informally by literary scholars and the media as "Japanese America's poet laureate." But Suyemoto has always described herself in much more humble terms. A first-generation Japanese American, she has identified herself as a storyteller, a teacher, a mother whose only child died from illness, and an internment camp survivor. Before Suyemoto passed away in 2003, she wrote a moving and illuminating memoir of her internment camp experiences with her family and infant son at Tanforan Race Track and, later, at the Topaz Relocation Center in Utah, from 1942 to 1945.

A uniquely poetic contribution to the small body of internment memoirs, Suyemoto's account includes information about policies and wartime decisions that are not widely known, and recounts in detail the way in which internees adjusted their notions of selfhood and citizenship, lending insight to the complicated and controversial questions of citizenship, accountability, and resistance of first- and second-generation Japanese Americans.

Suyemoto's poems, many written during internment, are interwoven throughout the text and serve as counterpoints to the contextualizing narrative. Suyemoto's poems, many written during internment, are interwoven throughout the text and serve as counterpoints to the contextualizing narrative. A small collection of poems written in the years following her incarceration further reveal the psychological effects of her experience.

[more]

front cover of In a Rugged Land
In a Rugged Land
Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and the Three Mormon Towns Collaboration, 1953–1954
James Swensen
University of Utah Press, 2018
[more]

front cover of In Another Time
In Another Time
Harold Schindler
Utah State University Press, 1998

An illustrated collection of historical articles originally published in the Salt Lake Tribune from 1993 to 1996, In
Another Time
provides both an entertaining introduction to Utah and a distinguished and popular historian's summary views of the state's peculiar history.

Another Time will entertain and inform newcomers seeking an introductory understanding of what has made Utah different, old hands wanting to know more about the rich complexity of the state's past, and anyone who enjoys well-told historical tales.
 

[more]

front cover of The Interior West
The Interior West
A Fire Survey
Stephen J. Pyne
University of Arizona Press, 2018
Its fires help to give the Interior West a peculiar character, fundamental to its natural and human histories. While a general aridity unites the region—defined here as Nevada, Utah, and western Colorado—its fires illuminate the ways that the region’s various parts show profoundly different landscapes, biotas, and human settlement experiences.

In this collection of essays, fire historian Stephen J. Pyne explains the relevance of the Interior West to the national fire scene. This region offered the first scientific inquiry into landscape fire in the United States, including a map of Utah burns published in 1878 as part of John Wesley Powell’s Arid Lands report. Then its significance faded, and for most of the 20th century, the Interior West was the hole in the national donut of fire management. Recently the region has returned to prominence due to fires along its front ranges; invasive species, both exotics like cheatgrass and unleashed natives like mountain pine beetle; and fatality fires, notably at South Canyon in 1994.

The Interior West has long been passed over in national fire narratives. Here it reclaims its rightful place.
 
Included in this volume:
  • A summary of 19th- and 20th-century fire history in the Interior West
  • How this important region inspired U.S. studies of landscape fire
  • Why the region disappeared from national fire management discussions
  • How the expansion of invasive species and loss of native species has affected the region’s fire ecology
  • The national significance of fire in the Interior West
[more]


Send via email Share on Facebook Share on Twitter