Joy Kogawa Bücher
Joy Kogawa ist eine Autorin, deren Werk sich mit Themen wie Ungerechtigkeit und kultureller Identität auseinandersetzt. Ihr Schreiben schöpft oft aus persönlichen Erfahrungen mit der Zwangseinweisung japanischer Kanadier während des Zweiten Weltkriegs. Durch ihre Gedichte und Prosa erforscht sie die Komplexität der Geschichte und die Suche nach Zugehörigkeit. Kogawa widmet sich auch der Aufklärung der Öffentlichkeit und der Bewahrung der Erinnerung an die japanisch-kanadische Gemeinschaft.
On the 60th anniversary of the bombing that claimed Naomi's young mother in Obasan, Joy Kogawa revisits her second novel—Itsuka—now retitled Emily Kato In Obasan, Naomi's childhood was torn apart by Canada's betrayal of Japanese Canadian citizens during the 1940s. Years later, living quietly as a schoolteacher in the prairies, Naomi suffers the passing of the dear aunt and uncle who raised her, and her wounds are reopened. But Naomi's other aunt—the feisty Emily Kato—convinces her to move to Toronto and encourages her to become involved in the Japanese Canadian fight for redress. Politically charged and intimately poetic, Emily Kato tells the story of one community's struggle for justice, extraordinary commitment, and profound hope.
A career-spanning volume that brings together new and selected works by an iconic voice in Canadian literature. From the Lost and Found Department, by the trailblazing Joy Kogawa, is a profound work of spare, trenchant, and haunting poems that lets us stay with the quietest qualities of beauty and the sublime. This essential volume brings together thrilling new work with selected poems from The Splintered Moon (1967), A Choice of Dreams (1974), Jericho Road (1977), Woman In the Woods (1985), and A Garden of Anchors: Selected Poems (2003). Kogawa’s poems here are evidence that our every vulnerability can open into vast channels of grace.