ENGLISH 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Obasan, Japanese Canadians
17 Apr 2016
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Joy kogawa"s poetry: what the body remembers (jessica"s lecture) Poetry is kind of gasp, and there it is, a spark on the page. Ficion on the other hand, is like swamp ire. Examine the long-term afects of this kind of ethnic/racist segregaion. What are the ways kogawa atempts to ind an aestheic, cultural space to express her memories/experience/reality. The internment of japanese-canadians during wwii from 1942-1945. The sound policy and the best policy for the japanese canadians themselves is to distribute widely as possible throughout the country where they will not create feelings of racial hosility pm mackenzie king. Redress setlement, 1988 - acknowledgement of injusice and payments/setlements. Even ater the war was over the hatred sill exists. Trunk traveled through evacuaion from west coast to alberta. Woodicks in the forest buried into you like the words of the children.
