Memory and Mourning in the Black Pacific
ブラック・パシフィックの記憶と嘆き
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At the nexus between memoir and social history, Fredrick D. Kakinami Cloyd’s work crosses boundaries of race, nation, discipline, and genre to give us a glimpse into little known territory – the Black Pacific collective memory. Dream of the Water Children is a meditation on the condition of a Black Japanese diaspora born of war and U.S. imperialism as much as it is a personal story of love, loss and spiritual redemption. Written in multiple voices, Cloyd lets his ghosts speak. This book is a beautiful tribute to his mother and sister, and to all the water children that have been swept under the rug of history.
– Grace M. Cho, author of Haunting the Korean Diaspora: Shame, Secrecy and the Forgotten War (University of Minnesota Press, 2008)
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In Memorium: Kiyoko Kakinami Cloyd
November 2, 1929 (?) - September 17, 2011
Like a swimmer who has made it through the break, Fredrick Cloyd looks back at the far shore of his war-touched past with fresh eyes. Eloquent, passionate and continually surprising, his meditation on history and the individual provokes and tantalizes the reader through a shared process of remembering. This is an ocean of a book.
– Walter Hamilton, author of Children of the Occupation: Japan’s Untold Story
(Rutgers University Press, 2013)
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