Joy Kogawa's Obasan - Individual vs. Collective Attempts to Overcome Suffering.
This paper is about Joy Kogawa's Obasan and individual vs. collective attempts to overcome suffering. Kogawa's novel was published in 1981, a time when the experience of the Japanese in Canada and the United States during World War II was being talked about a good deal. The author was herself interned during the War, like thousands of Canadian Japanese people who lived in coastal areas of the Province of British Columbia.
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