HUMA 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Japanese Canadians, Obasan, Keratin
14 Apr 2014
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Due to the attack on pearl harbor and much of asia (including british territories) by the. Japanese, canada declared war on japan in 1941. This had huge consequences for japanese canadians: homes and property seized without compensation. Japanese evacuated from coastal british columbia: many men imprisoned, after the war, forced deportations and settlement programs prevented them from going back to coastal bc. Even if the interment is understandable the cornification of property and forced deportations after war are not. Crimes of history can stay in history shouldn"t we turn the page and move on? (naomi, 44-45) The past is the future. (aunt emily, 45) Look at what went wrong and fix the issues for the present. Set both in the 1940s (naomi"s childhood) and the 1972 (naomi"s adulthood) Naomi and aunt emily offer a child"s and adult"s account of the japanese internment. Obasan aunt (naomi"s paternal aunt) is very traditionally japanese-copes with hardship using silence.
