Obasan, Joy Kogawa
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Obasan, Joy Kogawa
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
novels
Main title
Obasan
Oclc number
8032731
Responsibility statement
Joy Kogawa
Summary
Based on the author's own experiences, this award-winning novel was the first to tell the story of the evacuation, relocation, and dispersal of Canadian citizens of Japanese ancestry during the Second World War. Naomi Nakane, a child of Japanese immigrant parents, is interned by the Canadians at the beginning of World War II when she is five years old
Target audience
juvenile
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Creator
Subject
- Internment camp inmates -- Juvenile fiction
- Novels
- Internment camps -- Juvenile fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Canada -- Juvenile fiction
- Historical fiction
- War stories
- Japanese -- Canada -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- Fiction
- Canadian fiction -- 20th century
- War fiction
- Japanese -- Canada -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 -- Juvenile fiction
- Canadiens d'origine japonaise -- Évacuation et relogement, 1942-1945 -- Romans
- Japanese Canadians -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- Fiction
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- Contributor1
- Creator1
- Genre4
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- Internment camp inmates -- Juvenile fiction
- Novels
- Internment camps -- Juvenile fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Canada -- Juvenile fiction
- Historical fiction
- War stories
- Japanese -- Canada -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- Fiction
- Canadian fiction -- 20th century
- War fiction
- Japanese -- Canada -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 -- Juvenile fiction
- Canadiens d'origine japonaise -- Évacuation et relogement, 1942-1945 -- Romans
- Japanese Canadians -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- Fiction
- Content1
- Author1
- Other version1
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