After darkness : Japanese civilian internment in Australia during World War II
Details:
Title
After darkness : Japanese civilian internment in Australia during World War II,
Other title
Japanese civilian internment in Australia during World War II,
Creator
Piper, Christine,
Collection
E-Publications,
PublicationNT,
E-Books,
Date
2014,
Abstract
After Darkness is a work of historical fiction about Japanese civilians interned in Australia and other wartime misdeeds. It is early 1942 and Australia is in the midst of war. While working at a Japanese hospital in the pearling port of Broome, Dr Ibaraki is arrested as an enemy alien and sent to Loveday internment camp in a remote corner of South Australia. There, he learns to live among a group of men who are divided by culture and allegiance. As tensions at the isolated camp escalate, the doctor's long-held beliefs are thrown into question and he is forced to confront his dark past: the promise he made in Japan and its devastating consequences.,
Notes
Thesis, Doctor of Creative Arts, University of Technology, Sydney. 2014,
Made available via the Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT).,
Table of contents
List of images -- Abstract -- Creative component - After Darkness. Exegesis: The Gathering light -- Introduction -- Perspectives on Japanese civilian internment in Australia -- Unearthing the past: silence and testimony in Japan -- Memory of trauma and conflicted voice in 'The Remains of the day, Austerlitz and After Darkness' -- The other side of silence -- Bibliography,
Language
English,
Subject
Physicians,
Prisoners of war,
Australia,
Fiction,
World War, 1939-1945,
Prisoners and prisons, Australian,
Australian fiction,
21st century,