"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...
Obasan, first published by Lester and Orpen Dennys in 1981, is a novel by the Japanese-Canadian author Joy Kogawa. It chronicles Canada's internment and persecution of its citizens of Japanese descent during World War II from the perspective of a young...
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...
Critical attention has recently focused on the ways in which minority discourses contest the exclusionary tendencies of nationalist consolidation. This paper draws on the theories of Homi Bhabha as well as the fiction of Joy Kogawa and John Okada to trace the license...
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