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Resilient Imaginations: No-No Boy, Obasan and the Limits of Minority Discourse, in Mosaic (Winnipeg) » Read Now
by Apollo O. Amoko. 21 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Bhabha as well as the fiction of Joy Kogawa and John Okada to trace the license...Obasan by Japanese Canadian writer Joy Kogawa and No-No Boy by Japanese American...Hisaye...
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Asian American Women Writers ("Joy Kogawa" begins on p. 53) » Read Now
by Harold Bloom. 142 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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Teaching American Ethnic Literatures: Nineteen Essays ("Experiential Approaches to Teaching Joy Kogawa's Obasan" begins on p. 293) » Read Now
by John R. Maitino, David R. Peck. 350 pgs.

Collections: Education, Literature, Entire Library

...Mitsuye Yamada, "Experiential Approaches to Teaching Joy Kogawas Obasan" 293 King-Kok Cheung, "Reading...pushed north and south: Mitsuye Yamadas chapter on Joy Kogawa...
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Co-Wanderers Kogawa and Mukherjee: New Immigrant Writers, in World Literature Today » Read Now
by B. A. St. Andrews. 3 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...for the first time. Writers like Joy Kogawa, a Japanese Canadian, and Bharati...works of Bharati Mukherjee and Joy Kogawa squarely face the third challenge...1986 ), p...
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'Obasan': Revelations in a Paradoxical Scheme, in MELUS » Read Now
by Teruyo Ueki. 16 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...second-generation Japanese-Canadian Joy Kogawa, utilizes the same subtle art of...stay with it. (2.) I am grateful to joy Kogawa for taking time to see me in...
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Japanese American Women's Life Stories: Maternality in Monica Sones Nisei Daughter and Joy Kogawa's Obasan, in Feminist Studies » Read Now
by Shirley Geok-Lin Lim. 24 pgs.

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...MONICA SONES NISEI DAUGHTER AND JOY KOGAWAS OBASAIV SHIRLEY GEOK-LIN LIM...Nisei Daughter ( 1953 ) and Joy Kogawa Obasan ( 1981 ). 6 Nisei Daughter...writers such as Maxine...
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The Immigrant Experience in North American Literature: Carving out a Niche (Chap. 11 "Obasan and Hybridity: Necessary Cultural Strategies") » Read Now
by Katherine B. Payant, Toby Rose. 198 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Although many studies have been done of individual authors, at present few works exist which compare different immigrant literatures from the past and present. This work draws broad conclusions about the changes in American attitudes toward immigration and diverse cultures that are reflected in the...
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Although many studies have been done of individual authors, at present few works exist which compare different immigrant literatures from the past and present. This work draws broad conclusions about the changes in American attitudes toward immigration and diverse cultures that are reflected in the literature. This book examines the representation of the immigrant experience in North American literature. Most of the chapters discuss the portrayal of particular ethnic groups by specific authors during a century of American and Canadian history. The introductory and concluding essays provide historical, cultural, and literary contexts for a comparative approach to the experiences of different ethnic groups.
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Reading the Nonverbal: The Indices of Space, Time, Tactility and Taciturnity in Joy Kogawa's 'Obasan', in MELUS » Read Now
by Helena Grice. 14 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Time, Tactility and Taciturnity in Joy Kogawas "Obasan by Helena Grice...Monica Sones Nisei Daughter and Joy Kogawas Obasan." (2.) King-Kok Cheungs...Remembering History in...
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Asian American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook ("Joy Kogawa" begins on p. 161) » Read Now
by Emmanuel S. Nelson. 424 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

As a distinct area of literary study, Asian American literature now enjoys a level of critical recognition that was unimaginable when academic interest in the field began modestly some 25 years ago. Part of this recognition stems from the increasing contributions of Asian American novelists, whose...
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As a distinct area of literary study, Asian American literature now enjoys a level of critical recognition that was unimaginable when academic interest in the field began modestly some 25 years ago. Part of this recognition stems from the increasing contributions of Asian American novelists, whose works continue to capture growing levels of popular attention. This reference book provides alphabetically arranged entries for 70 Asian American novelists. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and provides a short biography, a discussion of major works and themes, an overview of the novelist's critical reception, and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. In addition, the volume concludes with a selected, general bibliography.
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Reading Asian American Literature: From Necessity to Extravagance ("Kogawa's Obasan: Directionality without Freedom" begins on p. 138) » Read Now
by Sau-Ling Cynthia Wong. 258 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

A recent explosion of publishing activity by a wide range of talented writers has placed Asian American literature in the limelight. As the field of Asian American literary studies gains increasing recognition, however, questions of misreading and appropriation inevitably arise. How is the growing...
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A recent explosion of publishing activity by a wide range of talented writers has placed Asian American literature in the limelight. As the field of Asian American literary studies gains increasing recognition, however, questions of misreading and appropriation inevitably arise. How is the growing body of Asian American works to be read? What holds them together to constitute a tradition? What distinguishes this tradition from the "mainstream" canon and other "minority" literatures? In the first comprehensive book on Asian American literature since Elaine Kim's ground-breaking 1982 volume, Sau-ling Wong addresses these issues and explores their implications for the multiculturalist agenda.Wong does so by establishing the "intertextuality" of Asian American literature through the study of four motifs--food and eating, the Doppelg,nger figure, mobility, and play--in their multiple sociohistorical contexts. Occurring across ethnic subgroup, gender, class, generational, and historical boundaries, these motifs resonate with each other in distinctly Asian American patterns that universalistic theories cannot uncover. Two rhetorical figures from Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior, "Necessity" and "Extravagance," further unify this original, wide-ranging investigation. Authors studied include Carlos Bulosan, Frank Chin, Ashley Sheun Dunn, David Henry Hwang, Lonny Kaneko, Maxine Hong Kingston, Joy Kogawa, David Wong Louie, Darrell Lum, Wing Tek Lum, Toshio Mori, Bharati Mukherjee, Fae Myenne Ng, Bienvenido Santos, Monica Sone, Amy Tan, Yoshiko Uchida, Shawn Wong, Hisaye Yamamoto, and Wakako Yamauchi.
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Reclaiming Identity: Realist Theory and the Predicament of Postmodernism (Chap. 5 "Joy Kogawa, Realism, and Objectivity of Values") » Read Now
by Michael R. Hames-GarcÃa, Paula M. L. Moya. 354 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

"Identity" is one of the most hotly debated topics in literary theory and cultural studies. This bold and groundbreaking collection of ten essays argues that identity is not just socially constructed but has real epistemic and political consequences for how people experience the world. Advocating a...
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"Identity" is one of the most hotly debated topics in literary theory and cultural studies. This bold and groundbreaking collection of ten essays argues that identity is not just socially constructed but has real epistemic and political consequences for how people experience the world. Advocating a "postpositivist realist" approach to identity, the essays examine the ways in which theory, politics, and activism clash with or complement each other, providing an alternative to the widely influential postmodernist understandings of identity. Although theoretical in orientation, this dynamic collection deals with specific social groups--Chicanas/os, African Americans, gay men and lesbians, Asian Americans, and others--and concrete social issues directly related to race, ethnicity, sexuality, epistemology, and political resistance.
Satya Mohanty's brilliant exegesis of Toni Morrison's "Beloved serves as a launching pad for the collection. The essays that follow, written by prominent and up-and-coming scholars, address a range of topics--from the writings of Cherrie Moraga, Franz Fanon, Joy Kogawa, and Michael Nava to the controversy surrounding racial program housing on college campuses--and work toward a truly interdisciplinary approach to identity.
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Reading the Literatures of Asian America (Discussion of Joy Kogawa begins on p. 98) » Read Now
by Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, Amy Ling. 376 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

With the recent proliferation of critically acclaimed literature by Asian American writers, this groundbreaking collection of essays provides a unique resource for students, scholars, and the general reading public. The homogeneity implied by the term "Asian American" is replaced in this volume with...
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With the recent proliferation of critically acclaimed literature by Asian American writers, this groundbreaking collection of essays provides a unique resource for students, scholars, and the general reading public. The homogeneity implied by the term "Asian American" is replaced in this volume with the rich diversity of highly disparate peoples. Languages, religions, races and cultural and national backgrounds. Examining a century of Asian American literature from the late 19th century up through the contemporary experimental drama of Ping Chong, the contributors address the work of writers with Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Filipino, East Indian, and Pacific Island ancestry. Asian Canadian and Hawaiian literature are also considered. Author note: Shirley Geok-lin Lim is Professor of Asian Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara.Amy Ling is Associate Professor of English and Director of Asian American Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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Writing across Worlds: Literature and Migration (Chap. 14 "Birds of Passage or Squawking Ducks") » Read Now
by John Connell, Russell King, Paul White. 284 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library