Themes, lines, ideas for paper, etc.
Mitsuye Yamada is an Asian American Poet
Japanese Internment camp
her and her family were placed there
looking at different voices in her poetry, her mother, her father, her grandmother
"Broken" english vs perfect standard english in her poems
Questioning cultural norms
refuting traditional values of proper behavior (modesty)
not letting history get smoothly evaded or erased
the power of silence
struggle to identify oneself
imprisonment vs relocation, government language
connections to other oppressed minorities
visible as sexually exotic objects, invisible as subjects
establishing personal and national history
sharing experiences
generational differences and not understanding culture
mislead american public, dominant culture language
parents never talked to their kids about their problems
spoke up and made change
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