Since its publication in 1981‚ Joy Kogawa’s Obasan has assumed an important place in Canadian literature and in the broadly-defined‚ Asian-American literary canon. Reviewers immediately heralded the novel for its poetic force and its moving portrayal of an often-ignored aspect of Canadian and American history. Since then‚ critics have expanded upon this initial commentary to examine more closely the themes and images in Kogawa’s work. Critical attention has focused on the difficulties and ambiguities
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was the Japanese Internment Camp. Hundred thousands of Japanese were forced to relocate away from their homes and incarcerated into a camp. That being said‚ more than half of the hundred thousands of Japanese were legal citizens of the United States; however‚ because of their Japanese blood‚ they are seen as the enemy of the United States. To summarize‚ more than hundred thousands of Japanese that were citizens of the United States had their right(s) stripped away because they were Japanese. This clearly
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On December 7‚ 1941‚ after the Japanese attack on Peral Harbor during WWII‚ Canada was afraid. That fear became mistrust which‚ in turn became mistreatment of Japanese Canadians. The government was cruel‚ stripped them of all their rights as citizens‚ did not let them speak up for themselves and unfairly punished them in different ways. In an effort to protect Canada‚ the government wrongfully confiscated and sold the possessions of Japanese Canadians effectively taking away their ability to work
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of the two spiders can be seen as the dehumanization which is set upon the Japanese-Canadians by the white Canadians. The second spider appears to be "lighter in colour‚ its legs more muscular‚ striped and tapered" (25) and seems to be aggressive with the first‚ darker spider. This suggests dominance of the second spider‚ which is viewed as the white Canadian‚ over the first spider which is viewed as the Japanese-Canadian. And just like these spiders in the attic‚ these memories will doubtlessly
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Ethics of Identity: Japanese-American Internment Since 1893‚ when Fredrick Jackson Turner announced that the American identity was not a byproduct of the first colonists‚ but that it emerged out of the wilderness and only grew with the surfacing of the frontier‚ America has placed a great emphasis on the notion of a national identity. However‚ the paradox of the American identity is that although the United States is a melting pot of many different traditions‚ motives‚ and ideals‚ there are nevertheless
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Japanese Internment Camps The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7‚ 1941. Many Americans were afraid of another attack‚ so the state representatives pressured President Roosevelt to do something about the Japanese who were living in the United States at the time. President Roosevelt authorized the internment with Executive Order 9066 which allowed local military commanders to designate military areas as exclusion zones‚ from which any or all persons may be excluded. Twelve days later
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February 1942‚ President Roosevelt signed an executive order for the exclusion and internment of all Japanese Americans. This exclusion started March 1942. The story. Class we start off the new year with a very special student and the end of Last years of paper assignment. Hiroshi Makiauto please come up and tell us about yourself. Recite your assigned story for the class Mr. bronze said. Standing up in front of the class with hands of Clay and
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In WWII after the bombing of Pearl Harbor many Japanese Americans were put in internment camps‚ areas where they could be kept away from the general population. This was due to mass hysteria and the widespread belief that the Japanese Americans were still loyal to their home country. Whether or not it was right of the United States Government to do this has been a long debated topic. After all‚ the Japanese put in the camps had lived in America for most if not all of their lives. In a more general
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the United States internment camps were extremely overcrowded and provided very poor living conditions. According to the reports published by the War Relocation Authority‚ the administering agency in 1943‚ Japanese Americans were housed in tar paper covered barracks with guard towers and barbed wire fences for boundary. Moreover‚ not only were these boundaries just boundaries. They were guarded by military police with rifles‚ and numerous Japanese Americans in these internment camps were killed
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experience of Japanese residents in internment camps. This was difficult for me because many of the residents in the camps had journals to record their experiences but they had been confiscated over time and the ones held in secrecy may have been lost over time. Initially I had wanted to primarily focus on the actual experiences of the Japanese in these camps. However‚ since I was so limited in my sources‚ I had broadened the scope of my topics to the actual causes and effects that the Japanese internment
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