"Every book I've written has changed me," noted Canadian poet and novelist Joy Kogawa to Anglican Journal's Sue Careless. "The journey of the pen is a transforming one because when you use the pen as a pick axe as deeply as you can, it will bring up...

The speech that frees comes forth from that amniotic deep Joy Kogawa, Obasan Combining prose, poetry, and documentary, Obasan records the struggle of the Japanese Canadian community against a hostility that takes many forms--long standing racial prejudice, wartime internment, and double dispersal...

THERE'S NO SUCH THING as art for art's sake in non-white North America. Here, every work of art or literature either includes or excludes us, either adds or deletes us from the collective American imagination. For Asian Americans struggling to articulate a unique...