Focusing on Australia, Singapore, and the United States, targets of Japanese military aggression in different stages of colonial development, The Architecture of Confinement presents an archipelagic history in which prisoner of war camps, civilian internment centers, and confinement sites across the Pacific War of World War II, also called the Pacific Theater, formed taxonomies of national belonging. The authors recast these jails as borderlands created by the wartime state to demarcate spaces where the rights of inmates could be confiscated and curtailed, even in the face of varying claims to sovereignty and belonging. Anoma Pieris and Lynne Horiuchi combine their expertise in the penal histories of Singapore and the United States, respectively, to build a framework for understanding the architecture of empire. They share authorship of the book’s introduction and one chapter; of the remaining ten chapters, Pieris is the author of nine and Horiuchi the author of one.
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University of California Press