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 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...



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'Obasan': revelations in a paradoxical scheme. (Asian Perspectives)
12/22/1993: 7,107 words, approx. 24 pages Japanese-Canadian author Joy Kogawa's novel 'Obasan' addresses the power of speech and silence as they exist in Japanese and Western culture. The thematic layout of the novel and the artistic devices portrayed within it are structured to show the ways in which the effect...
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 Frontiers - A Journal of Women's Studies
Ethnic reproduction and the amniotic deep: Joy Kogawa's Obasan.
01/01/2003: 9,297 words, approx. 31 pages 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...


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