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Obasan de Joy Kogawa
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Obasan (1981 original; edició 1994)

de Joy Kogawa (Autor)

Sèrie: Naomi Nakane (1)

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A powerful and passionate novel, Obasan tells, through the eyes of a child, the moving story of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War. Naomi is a sheltered and beloved five-year-old when Pearl Harbor changes her life. Separated from her mother, she watches bewildered as she and her family become enemy aliens, persecuted and despised in their own land. Surrounded by hardship and pain, Naomi is protected by the resolute endurance of her aunt Obasan and the silence of those around her. Only after Naomi grows up does she return to question the haunting silence.… (més)
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Títol:Obasan
Autors:Joy Kogawa (Autor)
Informació:Anchor (1993), Edition: Reprint, 300 pages
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Obasan de Joy Kogawa (1981)

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    Snow Falling on Cedars de David Guterson (kiwidoc)
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  3. 10
    A Child in Prison Camp de Shizuye Takashima (SylviaC)
    SylviaC: These books are both about young children of Japanese descent, living in Canadian internment camps. A Child in Prison Camp is a memoir, beautifully illustrated by Takashima. Obasan is a novel based on Kogawa's childhood memories.
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    They Called Us Enemy de George Takei (Cecrow)
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    Farewell to Manzanar de Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston (Cecrow)
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    Naomi's Road de Joy Kogawa (Cecrow)
    Cecrow: "Naomi's Road" is the children's version retelling of "Obasan".
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Es mostren 1-5 de 28 (següent | mostra-les totes)
A heartbreaker, but beautifully written, and such an eye-opener about how Canada treated its citizens of Japanese ancestry. Really horrifying—I knew about the U.S. and the internment camps, but this was a bit of a surprise, though I suppose it shouldn't have been, with second- and third-generation Japanese-Canadians forced to give up all their possessions and their homes, and relocate to shantytowns to perform forced labor. Kogawa was originally a poet, and it shows. Recommended. ( )
  lisapeet | Jun 18, 2023 |
Naomi is navigating her singledom in 1970s small-town Alberta when a family tragedy brings her closer to a past she's tried to forget. This leads her to reflecting back on her childhood experiences leading up to and inside of an internment camp for Japanese Canadians during World War II. As a child she could not know of the nuance or understand everything that was happening. She saw the tragedy on a different level: the rapid and eventually complete unravelling of safety, security and family. Some readers don't like the child's perspective in this novel, but in that alternative version we would be told how it was the children who would suffer most. This is the story of one suffering child. Now that she is revisiting her memories through adult eyes, with all the relevant documentation before her, new interpretations spring to light and the full story of forced internments and migrations emerges with its impacts on both the young and the old who were made its victims.

The writing style was sometimes an irritant for me, but the content is strong and the message is important. Surrendering to racist fear cost our country valuable unison in wartime, and the wrongs that were inflicted on this segment of our population weakened the moral ground from which our country fought World War II. There was clearly a hypocricy to fighting in freedom's name while we were stealing it away in our own backyard. It does not cancel out the heroism of our veterans or make wrong what we did right, but this story reminds how Canada's leaders and its people - how any people - can be fallible and wrong-headed when they let fear guide them. ( )
  Cecrow | Jun 12, 2023 |
The novelized form of the author's grandmother's time spent in a Canadian Japanese internment camp. I found the book to be superficial. (Maybe it was supposed to be as Obasan was 5 years old when sent to the camp) Although a novel, I found several glaring statements about the U.S. internment(s) that had no basis in fact: 1) the US did not confiscate Japanese citizen's property (which they did) 2) "at least the US Japanese citizens had the Bill of Rights--correct, the had constitutional protection; little good it did them, though. I guess I found it a "light" book for such a serious subject. Maybe it was written for high-schoolers or YA???? Or the young girl experienced it at 5 years of age??? 320 pages ( )
  Tess_W | Aug 19, 2022 |
Based on the author's own experiences, this award-winning novel was the first to tell the story of the evacuation, relocation, and dispersal of Canadian citizens of Japanese ancestry during the Second World War
  Centre_A | Aug 10, 2022 |
Joy Kogawa's novel, OBASAN, first published nearly forty years ago, has become a minor Canadian classic. Its narrator, Naomi Nakane, a school teacher, looks back thirty years at her childhood spent in a desolate Japanese-Canadian internment camp near the tiny "ghost town" of Slocan during WWII, remembering the racism and discrimination and the quiet stoicism of her grandmother and uncle, who raised her and her older brother, Stephen. The family comes together again when her uncle dies, and the dark secrets of what happened to her parents in those years are revealed. But perhaps the most startling part of Kogawa's story for me is how the Canadian government continued to discriminate against its Japanese-Canadian citizens AFTER the war, denying them the opportunity to return to their homes in the west, instead pressing them to either move east or "repatriate" back to Japan. Naomi's family lived in a shed on a sugar beet farm in Alberta and worked like slaves for years.

Of course, the U.S. has its own shameful history of its treatment of Japanese-Americans during the war. I remember reading FAREWELL TO MANZANAR many years ago - another book that has attained that status of minor classic.

OBASAN is a sad, disturbing, and beautifully written little book. Very highly recommended.

- Tim Bazzett, author of the memoir, BOOKLOVER ( )
  TimBazzett | May 16, 2019 |
Es mostren 1-5 de 28 (següent | mostra-les totes)
Obasan's power comes from the beauty of the writing, the stark imagery and vivid symbolism, and from the calm recitation of events that destroyed families, a culture, and a way of life.
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To him that overcometh
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Beneath the grass the speaking dreams and beneath the dreams in a sensate sea. The speech that frees comes forth from that amniotic deep. To attend its voice, I can hear it say, is to embrace its absence. But I fail the task. The word is stone.
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Unless the stone bursts with telling, unless the seed flowers with speech, there is in my life no living word. The sound I hear is only sound. White sound. Words, when they fall, are pockmarks on the earth. The are hailstones seeking an underground stream.
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This book is dedicated to my mother and father and to those amazing people, the Issei - the few who are still with us and those who have gone.
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She takes half a piece of leftover toast and puts it away in a square plastic container. The refrigerator is packed with boxes of food bits, slices of celery, a square of spinach, half a hard-boiled egg. She orchestrates each remainder of a previous dinner into a dinner to come, making every meal like every meal, an unfinished symphony. Our Lady of the Leftovers.
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A powerful and passionate novel, Obasan tells, through the eyes of a child, the moving story of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War. Naomi is a sheltered and beloved five-year-old when Pearl Harbor changes her life. Separated from her mother, she watches bewildered as she and her family become enemy aliens, persecuted and despised in their own land. Surrounded by hardship and pain, Naomi is protected by the resolute endurance of her aunt Obasan and the silence of those around her. Only after Naomi grows up does she return to question the haunting silence.

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