Citizen 13660

Citizen 13660 is set in Europe at the start of World War II. Discuss how Okubo’s portrayal of the war’s early beginning is crucial to understanding how the US came to the decision of internment of all Japanese Americans.

While the graphic novel’s textual narrative is in first person, Okubo draws herself into the accompanying scenes so that the illustrations appear from a third-person perspective. How do these dual perspectives through text and illustrations contribute to the larger themes of the graphic novel? What do these perspectives offer that a singular one does not?

How does Okubo portray the balance of factual experience and her reflections? How does this balance affect the overall tone of Citizen 13660?