Displacement
Ratings14
Average rating4.3
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Ratings14
Average rating4.3
A teenager is pulled back in time to witness her grandmother's experiences in World War II-era Japanese internment camps in Displacement, a historical graphic novel from Kiku Hughes. Kiku is on vacation in San Francisco when suddenly she finds herself displaced to the 1940s Japanese-American internment camp that her late grandmother, Ernestina, was forcibly relocated to during World War II. These displacements keep occurring until Kiku finds herself "stuck" back in time. Living alongside her young grandmother and other Japanese-American citizens in internment camps, Kiku gets the education she never received in history class. She witnesses the lives of Japanese-Americans who were denied their civil liberties and suffered greatly, but managed to cultivate community and commit acts of resistance in order to survive. Kiku Hughes weaves a riveting, bittersweet tale that highlights the intergenerational impact and power of memory.
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A mix of sci-fi interwoven with actual history about Japanese internment in the US after Pearl Harbor. Hard to read about but something I unfortunately have read all too little about. Great color palette.
A touching story about the incarceration of Japanese Americans in the US after World War II.
Although the artwork's stunning, the main ability of the character was never explained. Which felt a little odd to me. Why not just tell the history of your people without elaborate plot points to make it interesting?
A decent read though.
I absolutely loved this graphic novel!!! I definitely recommend it to anyone who is interested in reading and learning a bit about Japanese interment camps in america. I loved how hughes interweaves fiction and reality and makes the story easy to understand. They inserted their own family history with a fantastical twist. Also it's a lil queer :) PLEASE READ THIS BEAUTY WHEN IT COMES OUT!!
It makes sense that Hughes thanks Octavia Butler in the end as this book owes a huge debt to Kindred. It's not a bad thing in any way, I think the time travel/displacement really works here as well. I loved the exploration of family trauma as something that isn't explored for various reasons and that Kiku and her mother both had these experiences. I thought the art was great as well - Hughes captured facial expressions really well even within her style.
