Date of Award
6-1-2015
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.
Department
Anthropology
First Advisor
Richard Clemmer-Smith, Ph.D.
Second Advisor
Bonnie Clark
Third Advisor
Christof Demont-Heinrich
Keywords
Censorship, Community identity, Discourse analysis, Japanese-American history, Journalism, World War II
Abstract
My research examines how the writers of the Granada Pioneer, a newspaper published in a Japanese American internment camp during World War II, used the editorial column of that publication to shape the community identity of that camp. The newspaper was published by Japanese America internees living in that camp, but their readership was composed of Japanese American internees and also non-interned non-Japanese Americans. Using Critical Discourse Analysis, I found that the internee writers were using the editorial column to shape a community habitus within the internment camp while at the same time attempting to reshape the imagined community of "America" within the minds of all their readers. In addition, I found that though the internee writers were subject to administrative censorship, they were able to circumvent that censorship by reprinting editorial columns from mainstream newspapers and thus express sentiments that they themselves were not permitted to published.
Publication Statement
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Recommended Citation
Gebhard, Jessica P. S., "Community Identity in "The Granada Pioneer"" (2015). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 234.
https://digitalcommons.du.edu/etd/234
Provenance
Received from ProQuest
Rights holder
Jessica P. S. Gebhard
File size
163 p.
Copyright date
2015
File format
application/pdf
Language
en
Discipline
Cultural anthropology, Linguistics