Frontiers, January 1st, 2003
Joy Kogawa's Obasan
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 formslong standing racial prejudice, wartime internment, and double dispersal and exile-all perpetrated by Canadians against Canadian citizens of Japanese descent.1 Kogawa's national and political story is also an intricate tale of intimacy and loss between Japanese mothers, daughters, grandmothers, and aunts. At the intersection between the story of ethnic...
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