This study undertakes a critical examination of Hiroshi Nakamura’s Treadmill: A Documentary Novel (1996) in light of the varied conceptualizations of documentary narratives. Treadmill is a testimonial account dealing with the physical and psychic traumatic afflictions of the Japanese American in internment camps during World War II. Despite its uniqueness in many respects, this text has not garnered the critical attention it deserves. It is the first novel written during the period of Japanese and Japanese-Americans incarceration. For fifty years, it has been sitting on the shelf of the National Archives in Record Group 210. I argue that Nakamura ably manipulates the stratagems of documentary narrative freeing himself from the constraints of the conclusive interpretation of historical data. He presents truths as inconclusive rendering sundry interpretations.
Ibrahim Ibrahim Radwan, M. (2017). Documentary Narratives: A Reading of Japanese American Internment Camps in Nakamura’s Treadmill. Annals of the Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University, 45(April - June (B)), 404-432. doi: 10.21608/aafu.2017.18071
MLA
Mahmoud Ibrahim Ibrahim Radwan. "Documentary Narratives: A Reading of Japanese American Internment Camps in Nakamura’s Treadmill". Annals of the Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University, 45, April - June (B), 2017, 404-432. doi: 10.21608/aafu.2017.18071
HARVARD
Ibrahim Ibrahim Radwan, M. (2017). 'Documentary Narratives: A Reading of Japanese American Internment Camps in Nakamura’s Treadmill', Annals of the Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University, 45(April - June (B)), pp. 404-432. doi: 10.21608/aafu.2017.18071
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Ibrahim Ibrahim Radwan, M. Documentary Narratives: A Reading of Japanese American Internment Camps in Nakamura’s Treadmill. Annals of the Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University, 2017; 45(April - June (B)): 404-432. doi: 10.21608/aafu.2017.18071
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