Obasan / Joy Kogawa.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780385468862 (paperback)
- ISBN: 0385468865
- Physical Description: 300 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: 1st Anchor books ed.
- Publisher: New York : Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc,, 1994.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Sequel: Itsuka. |
Awards Note: | American Book Awards, 1983 |
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Subject: | Japanese > Canada > Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 > Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 > Canada > Fiction. Concentration camp inmates > Fiction. Concentration camps > Fiction. |
Genre: | Historical fiction. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Kenton County.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Erlanger Branch | KOGAW J (Text) | 33126024024857 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |