Joy Kogawa : essays on her works / edited by Sheena Wilson.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Wilson, Sheena.

Series:

• Writers series (Toronto, Ont.) ; 32.
• Writers series ; 32

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Kogawa, Joy--Criticism and interpretation.
• Kogawa, Joy.
• Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

363 pages ; 18 cm.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : Guernica, 2011.

Contents:

• Introduction : the multiple voices of poiesis and praxis
• the work of Joy Kogawa / Sheena Wilson
• Revising the activist figure in the novels of Joy Kogawa / Glenn Deer
• The politics of redress in post-9/11 Canada / Julie McGonegal
• An awfully unwieldy business' : state territoriality, power, and Joy Kogawa's Obasan / Tim Nieguth
• The poetics of moment, exception, and indirection in Joy Kogawa's lyric poetry / Jonathan Hart
• Displacement, trauma, and the use of fairy tale motifs in Joy Kogawa's poetry and prose / Irene Sywenky
• Joy Kogawa's versions of Naomi's road : rewriting the autobiographical story of the Japanese Canadian uprooting of children / Rocío G. Davis
• Toronto dollar : currency backed by caring / Barbara Turnbull
• The little house that Joy saved / Ann-Marie Metten
• Interstitiality, integrity, and the work of the author : a conversation with Joy Kogawa / Sheena Wilson
• Biography : a narrative of life through words and actions / Sheena Wilson
• Awards and honours garnered for Obasan and for a lifetime of literary work and community activism / Sheena Wilson
• Excerpt from Chapter fourteen of Gently to Nagasaki / Joy Kogawa.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

• 9781550713114
• 1550713116

OCLC:

712851467