Obasan
The story of the incarceration of Japanese Canadians during and after World War II became popularly known through Joy Kogawa's novel, Obasan, originally published in 1981. Kogawa's novel depicts the "silence" the community maintained over three decades after their incarceration and the pain it went through in trying to break the silence. The sense of loss of one's youth, happiness, identity, community, property, occupation, and even family, and the impossibility, which the novel describes, to regain or even to rebuild one's dislocated "self" can only be truly understood by understanding Japanese Canadians' wartime experience--their detention, dispossession, dispersal and deportation--as a whole. Kogawa's novel broke Japanese Canadians' silence. 1st Anchor books ed. 300 pages ; 21 cm
- Kogawa, Joy.
- NIOD Bibliotheek
- Text
- Historical fiction.
- ocm28505013
- World War, 1939-1945--Canada--Fiction.
- Japanese--Canada--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945--Fiction.
- Internment camps--Fiction.
- Internment camp inmates--Fiction.
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