English in
UNIVERSITY of OREGON
SUMMER
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Introduction to Literature
Mark Chilton, 11:00 a.m., MUWH
Eng 104/CRN 41631/June 25-August 17
Satire in Film and Literature
William Hamilton, 9:00 a.m., MUWH
ENG 199/41634/June 25-August 17
Writing Medieval Monsters: From Antiquity
to the Renaissance
Kip Wheeler, Noon, MUWH
ENG 199/CRN 41635/June 25-August 17
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Classics of Science Fiction
Margaret McBride, 1:00 p.m., MUWH
ENG 199/CRN 42609/June 25-August 17
Introduction to Environmental Literature
William Rossi, 11:00 a.m.~12:50 p.m., MUWH
ENG 230/CRN 42610/June 25-July 20
Introduction to Native American Literature
James Tarter, 1:00 p.m., MUWH
ENG 240/CRN 41637/June 25-August 17
Introduction to Literary Criticism
James Crosswhite, 1:00-2:50 p.m., MUWH
ENG 300/CRN 42611/June 25-July 20
Women Writers' Forms: Novel
Anne Laskaya, 11:00 a.m., MUWH
ENG 316/CRN 42612/June 25-August 17
English Novel
Richard Stevenson, 1:00-2:50 p.m., MUWH
ENG 321/CRN 43119/July 23-August 17
Shakespeare on Page
and Stage
Lisa Freinkel, 8:00 a.m.-4:50 p.m., MUWHF
ENG 352/CRN 41640/June 18-22
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CENTURY
20th-Century Literature
Brian Whaley, 10:00 a.m., MUWH
ENG 394/CRN 41641/June 25-August 17
Poets of the Northwest
John Witte, 1:00-2:50 p.m., MUWH
ENG 399/CRN 41642/June 25-July 20
American Detective Fiction
James Boren, 9:00 a.m.„ MUWH
ENG 399/CRN 42613/June 25-August 17
Community Literacy
Suzanne Clark, 8:00 a.m.-4:50 p.m., MUWHF
ENG 410/510/CRN 41648/41653/June 18-22
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Courtesy of Kenge Kobayashi
As a part of Tuesday’s presentation, “Japanese Americans and World War II,” Kenge
Kobayashi’s watercolors will be exhibited at 7p.m. in the Gumwood Room of the EMU.
Ex-internee paints
WWII experiences
■ Kenge Kobayashi, who was
interned in World War II, will
give a presentation Tuesday
for Asian Heritage Month
By Yoshiomi Morishita
for the Emerald
The watercolor painting shows a
vast field at the foot of a mountain.
Boys are playing baseball, with
groups of other kids cheering them
on. Another spectator at this base
ball game is a soldier carrying a ri
fle with a bayonet, guarding the in
terned Japanese inside barbed-wire
fences from a watchtower. In the
lower right-hand corner is a signa
ture: Kenge Kobayashi, Interned in
Tulelake, 1944-46.
“Internment was a sad part of our
history,” said Kobayashi, 74, recall
ing his camp life in Tulelake, Calif.,
where he spent part of his youth
more than half a century ago.
Kobayashi, a retired graphic de
signer now living in Eugene, and
another ex-internee, Bob Kono, 68,
will come to the University on
Tuesday to share their experiences
during the war. Their presentation,
titled “Japanese Americans and
World War II,” will be held at 7
p.m. in the Gumwood Room of the
EMU. The Asian/Pacific American
Student Union (APASU) invited
the speakers as part of May’s Asian
Heritage Month series.
Like other Japanese Americans
on the West Coast, Kobayashi and
his family were shipped to intern
ment camps after the Dec. 7,1941,
attack on Pearl Harbor, despite his
U.S. citizenship as a Nisei, a sec
ond-generation Japanese Ameri
can.
In addition to a speech about the
camps, the presentation will in
clude an exhibit of Kobayashi’s wa
tercolor paintings of internment
camps and a showing of the film
“Honor Bound,” which features
veterans of the 442nd Regimental
Combat Team.
Composed of Nisei soldiers, the
442nd is “the most-decorated unit
in the history of the U.S. Army,”
said Kono, who is currently writing
a novel about the combat unit.
“[Some] volunteered from the
camps to prove their loyalty to the
United States, in spite of being clas
sified as enemy aliens,” he said.
It is critical not to look at the in
ternment as an isolated incident in
the American experience, said Lau
ren Kessler, journalism professor
and author of an award-winning
book, “Stubborn Twig: Three Gen
erations in the Life of a Japanese
American Family.”
“Internment was [a] serious legal
and extralegal episode of racism in
the United States,” Kessler said.
“The idea of having [internees]
talk about their experiences is very
rare,” said Sugie Hong, co-director
of APASU. “They were there, but
we weren’t.”
Once labeled as enemies or
aliens, many ex-internees hesitate
to speak about their camp experi
ences, Kobayashi said. However, he
said he is not shy about talking
about his own, because “we didn’t
do anything wrong.”
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