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Phantoms of Self and Other

11 min readOct 21, 2019

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American troops supervise the movement of Japanese Americans from their homes on the American west coast to 10 specially built camps after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour during World War II. | Credit: Hulton Deutsch (Getty)

“To worry or to smile, such is the choice when we are assailed by the strange; our decision depends on how familiar we are with our own ghosts.”

— Julia Kristeva, Strangers to Ourselves

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Justin Lee
Justin Lee

Written by Justin Lee

Fictioneer | MFA, UC Irvine | Associate Editor @ArcDigi | Co-Founder/Editor @InfiniteQuark | justindeanlee.com

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