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		This site explores the work of poet and novelist, Joy Kogawa. Its mission is to make as much material available as possible to facilitate the study of her writing at all levels--from elementary school on.
		Although the site is maintained with the generous permission of Joy Kogawa, she is not responsible for its content.
		And this is the "home" to which Joy and her family, all Canadian citizens, were deported, Slocan City, an abandoned ghost town in Slocan Valley, deep in the interior of British Columbia. Little remains of Slocan today: after the war, it literally disintegrated.
	www.kogawa.org (0 words)

	Joy Kogawa
		Joy Kogawa was born in Vancouver in 1935 to Japanese-Canadian parents.
		Kogawa has worked to educate Canadians about the history of Japanese internment camps, and she has been active in the fight for official governmental redress.
		Kogawa studied at the University of Alberta, the University of Toronto, and the University of Saskatchewan.
	www.brocku.ca /canadianwomenpoets/Kogawa.htm (262 words)

	Kogawa, Joy Nozomi
		Kogawa, Joy Nozomi, poet, novelist (b at Vancouver 6 June 1935).
		During WWII she and her parents were among the thousands of JAPANESE CANADIANS forcibly removed from the coastal areas and interned in the interior of BC: an experience Kogawa dealt with in her 1981 novel Obasan.
		Prior to its publication she was known mainly as a poet, as evidenced in The Splintered Moon (1967), A Choice of Dreams (1974) and Jericho Road (1977), collections of tightly controlled verse in which her Japanese ancestry becomes a growing preoccupation.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0004362 (145 words)

	Todd Wong's blog \| Save Kogawa House
		Joy soon returned to Toronto, but has returned to Vancouver briefly for Christmas with her daughter and grandchildren and recently at the end of March to see relatives and to give a reading for the Alcuin Society at Kogawa House on March 30th.
		Historic Joy Kogawa House is the childhood home of author Joy Kogawa, from which she and her family were removed from the home in 1942 as part of the Government’s policy of internment of Canadians of Japanese ancestry during World War II.
		Joy Kogawa House was the childhood home of award winning author Joy Kogawa, which she was forced to leave in 1942, at age six, when Japanese-Canadians were "evacuated" from the BC Coast and sent to internment camps during World War 2.
	www.kogawahouse.com /blog/todd-wong (0 words)

	Joy Kogawa’s House Saved
		Kogawa, the daughter of an Anglican priest, was six-years-old when she and her family, including her brother, Timothy, who is now also a priest, were forced from their home during the relocation and incarceration of Japanese Canadians.
		Joy Kogawa is the internationally renowned second-generation Japanese Canadian author of a series of novels that provide insight into the experience of Japanese Canadians during the war and the aftermath.
		Joy Kogawa, forced out of her house at age six, who grew up pushing through and transcending unjust suffering and all the emotional challenges that come with injustice, transforming what she experienced into beautiful and “freeing words” for all the world, has come home.
	kyotojournal.org /10,000things/044.html (2554 words)

	Canadian Voices - Speakers
		The Canadian Book Review Annual cites Joy Kogawa’s accomplishment in her award-winning first novel, Obasan, is that she “put human flesh on the familiar bones of one of the sorriest skeletons in Canada’s closet”.
		Kogawa's 1992 novel Itsuka, follows up on the life of Obasan protagonist, and recounts the young woman’s gradual reconciliation with Canada against the backdrop of the Redress movement.
		Joy Kogawa was born in Vancouver, but currently lives primarily in Toronto while maintaining an apartment in Vancouver, to accommodate visits to her father.
	www.canadianvoices.org /speakers.php?id=37 (0 words)

	Amazon.ca: Obasan: Books: Joy Kogawa (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Joy Kogawa's Obasan is a novel of memory, exploring the Canadian government's deplorable treatment of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War, which included the suspension of all rights, forced internment and labour, and the fracturing of families.
		This fact contributes to the power of Kogawa's prose, but her remarkably poetic writing and eye for image and symbolism are what elevate this deeply moving novel to the status of Canadian classic.
		Obasan, written by Joy Kogawa, is a deeply detailed book that sends the reader on a journey through actual events, dream sequences, and a twisted maze of a Japanese family's struggle in Canada during the 1940's-1970's.
	www.amazon.ca /Obasan-Joy-Kogawa/dp/0143014994 (1794 words)

	Should Joy Kogawa’s Childhood Home Be Saved? \| DarrenBarefoot.com
		The greatest injustice, the one that caused Joy Kogawa’s famous ‘Silence that cannot speak’ is the pedophile abuse she suffered throughout her childhood while living in the house in Marpole.
		Joy Kogawa truly is indeed worthy of recieving the Order of Canada, Order of BC, and being named to the BC Alamanac’s Greatest British Columbians, as well her novel Obasan is named as one of Literary Review of Canada’s Greatest Canadian books, and Quill and Quire’s most important Canadian books.
		All of Joy Kogawa’s novels are works of fiction, and have now been studied in Canadian universities and high schools as works of literature filled with metaphor, themes, and motifs including literary and creative license.
	www.darrenbarefoot.com /archives/2006/02/should-joy-kogawas-childhood-home-be-saved.html (2807 words)

	Vancouver Heritage Foundation: created as a private, charitable organization in 1992 by the Mayor and Council of the ...
		Joy Kogawa, author of Obasan, one of Canada's great classic novels, lived in a small house in Marpole at West 64 th Avenue until her family was relocated to the Slocan Valley when she was six years old as part of the internment of Japanese-Canadians during World War II.
		The Kogawa house, the very same childhood home described in her award winning novel, is currently in danger of being demolished.
		The “Save the Kogawa House” Committee hopes to raise sufficient funds to purchase the house from the current owners or at least to sway them to donate the house to be moved for safe keeping.
	www.vancouverheritagefoundation.org /Kogawa.html (425 words)

	Ujjal Dosanjh: Ujjal's statement on Joy Kogawa House
		Speaker, in my constituency of Vancouver South there is a historic landmark : Joy Kogawa House, the childhood home of renowned Canadian author Joy Kogawa.
		Kogawa and her family were removed as part of the internment of Japanese-Canadians during the Second World War.
		The Save Joy Kogawa House Committee and the Land Conservancy of B.C. have mounted a campaign to save the House and turn it into a museum.
	www.ujjaldosanjh.ca /Ujjal_s_statement_on_Joy_Kogawa_House.aspx (0 words)

	O.B.C. Biography - Joy Kogawa
		Joy Kogawa is one of British Columbia's most celebrated and inspirational authors, whose work has been instrumental in raising Canadian consciousness about wartime injustices.
		Kogawa's award-winning first novel, Obasan, is an illuminating portrayal of the internment of Japanese-Canadians in Canada during World War II.
		Kogawa's solid, steady efforts, the issues of internment of Canadians of Japanese descent were brought to the attention of the Federal Government, and led to the Japanese-Canadian Redress Agreement in 1988.
	www.protocol.gov.bc.ca /protocol/prgs/obc/2006/2006_JKogawa.htm (221 words)

	Saving the House of Joy :: Views :: thetyee.ca
		Kogawa is the most celebrated of Japanese-Canadian writers; her novel Obasan has not only won a big following internationally, it has single handedly educated otherwise unknowing Canadians about of Canada's darkest chapters, the interment of Japanese-Canadians during World War II (the internment experience in the novel is set in Slocan City).
		Working with the Save Kogawa House Committee, TLC has until March 30th to raise the $1.25 million required for purchase, house restorations and the establishment of an endowment fund devoted to maintenance of the home.
		Once protected, Kogawa House will be a used as a home for a writers-in-residence program, enabling a new generation of "writers of conscience" to be inspired both by the connection with Joy Kogawa's literary legacy as well as by the historical significance of the house itself.
	thetyee.ca /Views/2006/02/13/HouseofJoy (927 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Rain Ascends: Books: Joy Kogawa (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Joy Kogawa has a habit of writing fiction around what's filling up the newspapers.
		This new edition of "The Rain Ascends" deserves to outlast the critics of its first release whose displeasure hinged on its apparent lack of political correctness and the fact that it was not "Obasan".
		Kogawa abjures a simple-minded hang 'em and burn 'em approach and writes with profundity and compassion on the subject of pedophilia, to which there was fleeting reference in Obasan.
	www.amazon.ca /Rain-Ascends-Joy-Kogawa/dp/0143013203 (801 words)

	ABCBookWorld
		Daughter of an Anglican minister and a musician, Joy Kogawa was born in Vancouver as Joy Nozonie Nakayama on June 6, 1935.
		Joy Kogawa has lived primarily in Toronto but has maintained an apartment in Vancouver, mainly to accommodate visits to her father.
		The City of Vancouver proclaimed November 6 as Joy Kogawa Day in 2004 and passed a motion to plant a cherry tree, propagated from one growing in the backyard of the former Kogawa home, on the grounds of City Hall.
	www.abcbookworld.com /?state=view_author&author_id=3755 (2128 words)

	Ryerson Library - Asian Heritage in Canada - Authors - Joy Kogawa
		Kogawa's contribution to Canadian life and letters has been recognized by several honorary doctorates.
		Since 1986 she has been a Member of the Order of Canada, and was named to the Order of British Columbia in May 2006.
		Whether writing of strangers or loved ones, of angst or anguish, of tenderness or despair, Joy Kogawa achieves a powerful fusion of images that adds special impact to her verse.
	www.ryerson.ca /library/events/asian_heritage/kogawa.html (645 words)

	Joy Kogawa, Obasan
		Early in the novel, Emily describes the treatment of the Japanese Canadians in language that evokes cattle, using images that evoke livestock animals.
		How does Kogawa utilize different metaphoric language (in the voice of the narrator Nomi) in Chapter 29 to describe the horrible living conditions of her family?
		Compare Kogawaís use of this same descriptive language in Chapter 31, which despite its metaphorical similarities, results in a different tone.
	www.umass.edu /complit/aclanet/Kogawa.html (0 words)

	Joy Kogawa "Spirit of Place" Second Session - 2002 Key West Literary Seminar (Site not responding. Last check: )
		JOY KOGAWA was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1935, and currently lives in Toronto, Ontario where she has been spending the last few years working with others in an experimental community currency called "The Toronto Dollar." www.torontodollar.com
		Joy Kogawa's daughter remembers her mother writing in a closet size storage room which was the only place in the apartment where she could get some privacy.
		In addition to her daughter, Deidre, Joy Kogawa has one son, Gordon.
	www.keywestliteraryseminar.org /spirit2/p_joykogawa.htm (368 words)

	GungHaggisFatChoy :: One Book One Vancouver: Joy Kogawa's Obasan
		Kogawa spent six happy years before her family's anguished internment in 1942 is under threat of demolition, a victim of history and Vancouver's high property prices.
		Kogawa's prize-winning 1981 novel Obasan, a heart-rending, barely fictionalized memoir of her internment experience that was recognized by Quill and Quire as one of the most influential Canadian books of the 20th century.
		For Kogawa, the 1450 West 64th Avenue property became a symbol of lost hope and happiness after she, at age six, and her family were removed from their home in 1942 as part of the forced evacuations and internment of over 20,000 Japanese-Canadians during World War II.
	www.gunghaggisfatchoy.com /blog/OneBookOneVancouverJoyKogawasObasan (0 words)

	Joy Kogawa's beloved book becomes opera for the whole family \| The Meliorist (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Based on Joy Kogawa’s 1986 novel for young readers, Naomi’s Road was commissioned by Vancouver Opera for its opera in the schools program.
		Joy Kogawa was born in Vancouver and like Naomi’s family, Joy’s family was interned in Slocan and later sent to Coaldale.
		Kogawa, who now lives in Vancouver and Toronto, is a recipient of numerous honorary doctorates as well as national and international awards for her writing.
	www.themeliorist.com /?q=node/1515 (614 words)

	VG: Artist Biography: Kogawa, Joy Nakayama
		Joy Nakayama Kogawa was born in 1935 in Vancouver, British Columbia.
		At the camps she and her family lived a life of field labor until the late 1940's when Joy began her studies at several universities.
		Kogawa, a Canadian poet, novelist, and children's writer, pursued studies in education at the University of Alberta.
	voices.cla.umn.edu /vg/Bios/entries/kogawa_joy_nakayama.html (0 words)

	Amazon.com: Obasan: Books: Joy Kogawa (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Joy Kogawa uses a blend of techniques in her debut novel, OBASAN, to tell the story of the Japanese Canadians and their years in Canada during and following WWII.
		Although Kogawa writes of a silence that does not speak, she breaks the silence beautifully with "Obasan," revealing a history that many do not know, and many do not talk about.
		Joy Kogawa is Canadian, of the family living in Canada for generations.
	www.amazon.com /Obasan-Joy-Kogawa/dp/0385468865 (2292 words)

	TLC The Land Conservancy :: Protecting Our Natural and Cultural Heritage (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In 1942, at the height of World War II, she and her family were removed from the house as a result of a policy implemented under the War Measures Act and relocated, along with thousands of other Canadians of Japanese ancestry, in an internment camp in the Slocan Valley.
		Joy and her family lost everything - except their dignity and their will to endure.
		The Save Kogawa House Committee, along with the Vancouver Heritage Foundation and the City of Vancouver then met with TLC to ask us to take on the project to raise funds and purchase the House.
	www.conservancy.bc.ca /sectioncontent.php?sectionid=179 (664 words)

	GungHaggisFatChoy :: Joy Kogawa is one of Almanc's 100 Greatest British Columbians
		GungHaggisFatChoy :: Joy Kogawa is one of Almanc's 100 Greatest British Columbians
		Joy Kogawa is one of Almanc's 100 Greatest British Columbians
		BC's top ten literary writers include Joy Kogawa, George Bowering, Wayson Choy, Dorothy Livesay.
	www.gunghaggisfatchoy.com /blog/OneBookOneVancouverJoyKogawasObasan/_archives/2005/11/20/1415314.html (0 words)

	CBC.ca Arts - Last-minute donation helps save Kogawa house
		Joy Kogawa in front of her former childhood home, which has been saved from demolition.
		"The future of the historic Joy Kogawa House is now completely in our hands, and we are proud of what we were able to accomplish with such a short deadline," said TLC deputy executive director Ian Fawcett in a statement.
		Another $200,000 will be required to restore the house, which the Kogawa family occupied in the 1930s and '40s before being sent to an internment camp in the B.C. Interior.
	www.cbc.ca /arts/story/2006/06/01/kogawa-house.html (1280 words)

	Reader's Guide to Joy Kogawa's Obasan
		Joy Kogawa is a member of the Order of Canada.
		“Joy Kogawa’s accomplishment is that she put human flesh on the familiar bones of one of the sorriest skeletons in Canada’s closet.
		Joy Kogawa born 6 June, Vancouver BC, daughter of Lois (Yao), kindergarten teacher, and Gordon Goichi Nakayama, Anglican minister; she is a second-generation Japanese Canadian (nisei)
	www.mhc.ab.ca /library/oboc/readersguide.htm (1250 words)

	asian canadian: JOY KOGAWA with SOOK C. KONG
		JOY KOGAWA with SOOK C. Thursday, November 4, 2004, 7:00-9:00pm
		Joy Kogawa is author of the award-winning book "Obasan" (1981), a novel
		Kogawa was born in Vancouver in 1935 and lived there in a house
	www.asiancanadian.net /2004/10/joy-kogawa-with-sook-c-kong.html (342 words)

	TLC The Land Conservancy :: News
		This is a great opportunity for Lower Mainland residents to view the one and one-half storey bungalow where Canadian author Joy Kogawa lived from 1937 to 1942.
		Kogawa will also be in attendance for a scheduled book signing.
		The Historic Joy Kogawa House has national significance as a symbol of the racial discrimination experienced by Japanese-Canadians as a consequence of World War II.
	www.conservancy.bc.ca /news_view.asp?id=703 (303 words)

	Chicago Review
		A special section on the art of translating poetry was published in the Autumn 1978 issue.
		The Summer 1973 issue was designated an “Anthology of Modern Japanese Poets.” Translator Hiroaki Sato also noted that the issue was “introducing Joy Kogawa,” a Canadian poet who wrote in English and who had not received much attention in the US.
		Kogawa, who was born in Vancouver, was forcibly moved with her family into the interior of British Columbia during World War II.
	humanities.uchicago.edu /orgs/review/60th/37kogawaindex.shtml (208 words)

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