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Obasan
First edition cover
Author
Joy Kogawa
Country
Canada
Language
English
Subject
Canadian history, World War II history, Asian studies
Publisher
Lester & Orpen Dennys
Publication date
1981
Media type
Print (Hardcover, Paperback)
Pages
279
ISBN
0-919630-42-1
OCLC
421601187
Preceded by
Jericho Road
Followed by
Woman in the Woods
Obasan is a novel by Japanese-Canadian author Joy Kogawa. First published by Lester and Orpen Dennys in 1981, it chronicles Canada's internment and persecution of its citizens of Japanese descent during the Second World War from the perspective of a young child. In 2005, it was the One Book, One Vancouver selection.
The book is often a required reading for university English courses on Canadian literature. It also figures in ethnic studies and Asian-American literature courses in the United States.
Kogawa uses strong imagery of silence, stones, and streams throughout the novel. She has many interesting dreams that are carried throughout the novel, as well. Themes depicted in the novel include memory and forgetting, prejudice and tolerance, identity, and justice versus injustice. Kogawa also contemplates many of these themes in her poetry.
Obasan is a novel by Japanese-Canadian author Joy Kogawa. First published by Lester and Orpen Dennys in 1981, it chronicles Canada's internment and persecution...
Minister in Ottawa in 1974. In 1981 she published her first prose work: Obasan, a semi-autobiographical novel that has become her best-known work. Books...
also undergoing a redevelopment program. Joy Kogawa's bestselling novel, Obasan, which tells the story of Canada's internment and persecution of its citizens...
called matsutake-modoki (pseudo-matsutake), and colloquially referred to as obasan no matsutake ("old lady's matsutake"), because it resembles matsutake mushroom...
Hepburn A + A aa: お婆(ばあ)さん – obaasan 'grandmother' (ba + a) ā: お婆(ばあ)さん – obāsan 'grandmother' (ba + a) I + I ii: 新(にい)潟(がた) – Niigata (ni + i) U + U ū:...
senior-citizen. O-kāsan (お-母さん): mother. The descriptive noun is haha (母). Obasan (伯母さん／小母さん／叔母さん): aunt, or also middle-aged lady. O-bāsan (お-祖母さん／御-祖母さん／御-婆さん／お-婆さん):...
ladies" (ヤクルトレディー; Yakuruto redī) or "Yakult aunties" (ヤクルトおばさん; Yakuruto obasan) to sell or deliver the products to individuals at their homes while traveling...
(ヤクルトレディー; Yakuruto redi-), also known as an Yakult auntie (ヤクルトおばさん; Yakuruto obasan), is a woman who sells Yakult products as an employee or delivers the products...
"Watashi ga Obasan ni Natte mo" (私がオバさんになっても, lit. "Even If I Become an Old Lady") is the 16th single by Japanese singer/songwriter Chisato Moritaka. The...
by the RIAJ. On 25 June 1992, Moritaka released the single "Watashi ga Obasan ni Natte mo". Composed by Saitō, Moritaka wrote the lyrics when she was...
studying every moment he could. There is a reference to him in the novel Obasan by Joy Kogawa. The father often tells the story of Ninomiya Sontoku to his...
released in 2019. Written by novelist Joy Kogawa based partially on her novels Obasan and Itsuka, the project tells the story of Yuki, a young Japanese Canadian...
surō bōto "A Slow Boat to China" The Elephant Vanishes 貧乏な叔母さんの話 Binbō na obasan no hanashi "A 'Poor Aunt' Story" (The New Yorker, December 3, 2001) Blind...
beneath the library and occasionally steals books to read for herself. Rosa-obasan (ローザおばさん) Voiced by: Rie Shibata The multi-armed lizard-like innkeeper of...
been explored in first-hand accounts and literature, such as Joy Kogawa's Obasan. The Nikkei Memorial Internment Centre in New Denver, British Columbia,...
Child Tamai Kobayashi, novelist and short story writer Joy Kogawa, author, Obasan Kyo Maclear, novelist and children's author Roy Miki, poet and scholar Kenzo...
Mrs. Pepperpot Keiji Hayakawa NHK 130 April 4, 1983 – March 9, 1984 Supūn obasan Based on Alf Prøysen's children books of the same name 39 Galactic Gale...
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