Obasan

work by Kogawa

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Canadian literature

  • The Handmaid's Tale
    In Canadian literature: Fiction

    Joy Kogawa’s Obasan (1981) is a skillful “docufiction” describing the internment of Japanese Canadians during World War II; in Chorus of Mushrooms (1994), Hiromi Goto examines the relations between three generations of women in rural Alberta. Chinese Canadian perspectives are presented in Choy’s The Jade Peony (1995),…

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