"Obasan": More Than One Telling/More Than One Reading.

Byrne, Mary Ellen

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ERIC Number: EJ653430

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Publication Date: 2002

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"Obasan": More Than One Telling/More Than One Reading.

Byrne, Mary Ellen

Teaching English in the Two-Year College, v30 n1 p30-37 Sep 2002

Discusses how in her 1981 novel "Obasan," 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. Asks students to analyze a passage and consider such literary elements as point of view, structure, selection of details, and figurative language. (SG)

Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English Instruction, Fiction, Nonfiction, Reader Text Relationship, Relocation, Two Year Colleges, World War II

Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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