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“The past is the future”

Obasan by Joy Kogawa

August 10, 2025 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

Cbr17bingo citizen Over the years, I have read a number of books that have dealt with the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. George Takei’s They Called Us Enemy and Julie Otsuka’s The Buddha in the Attic and When the Emperor Was Divine were all written from personal, family experiences of that shameful chapter in US history that was left out of history books when I was in school (and is probably being removed from them now). I had never heard of Joy […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Canada, cbr17, cbr17bingo, ElCicco, Fiction, Japanese Internment Camps, joy kogawa, obasan, WWII

ElCicco's CBR17 Review No:37 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Canada, cbr17, cbr17bingo, ElCicco, Fiction, Japanese Internment Camps, joy kogawa, obasan, WWII ·
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Obviously white Canadians feel more loyalty towards white foreigners than they do to us Canadians.

Obasan by Joy Kogawa

February 19, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

I think about how we become aware of things about the world in our childhood a lot. Think back to how you learned about various things in the world. When did you find out about slavery, and how? What about the Holocaust? Or great wars? In this book, we find our narrator rediscovering and putting name to the trauma she and her family went through during WWII as political prisoners in internment camps in Canada. I didn’t really know that Canada also interned its Japanese […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: joy kogawa, obasan

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:99 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: joy kogawa, obasan ·
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