Obasan: More than One Telling/ More than One Reading

Teaching English in the Two-Year College Sep 2002

Obasan: More than One Telling/ More than One Reading

Mary Ellen Byrne

Abstract

In her 1981 novel Obasan, the Japanese Canadian writer Joy Kogawa recounts the saga of the internment and relocation of Japanese Canadians during and after the Second World War by juxtaposing the "factual" historic telling against the personal, "fictional" telling. This experimental approach opens multiple and diverse pathways to us as instructors of literature.

Journal: Teaching English in the Two-Year College
Published: 2002-09-01
DOI: 10.58680/tetyc20022036
Open Access: Closed
Topics: multilingual writers

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