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Obasan by Joy Kogawa

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Author Biography

Name: Joy Kogawa
Birth Date: June 6, 1935
Place of Birth: Vancover, British Columbia, Canada
Nationality: Canadian
Ethnicity: Japanese
Gender: Female
Occupations: Writer

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Biography of Joy Kogawa
3352 words, approx. 11.2 pages
"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...


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Obasan Information
312 words, approx. 1 pages
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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MELUS
'Obasan': revelations in a paradoxical scheme. (Asian Perspectives)
12/22/1993: 7,106 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: 9,295 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 and...


Criticism and Essays
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Essay Grade: 88%
Obasan: Changing the Past with Perspective and Style
668 words, approx. 2 pages
Discusses how the author changes perspective and style in the novel "Obasan" by Joy Kogawa.


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