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- ISSN: 0098-6291
- E-ISSN: 1943-2356
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Obasan: More than One Telling/ More than One Reading
- Source: Teaching English in the Two-Year College, Volume 30, Issue 1, Sep 2002, p. 30 - 37
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- 01 Sep 2002
Abstract
In her 1981 novel Obasan, the Japanese Canadian writer Joy Kogawa recounts the saga of the internment and relocation of Japanese Canadians during and after the Second World War by juxtaposing the "factual" historic telling against the personal, "fictional" telling. This experimental approach opens multiple and diverse pathways to us as instructors of literature.
© 2002 by the National Council of Teachers of English