Joy Kogawa (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
Biography
Joy Kogawa was born Joy Nakayama in Vancouver, Canada. She is a second-generation Japanese Canadian, or nisei, born to Reverend Gordon Goichi Nakayama, an Anglican priest, and Lois Masui Nakayama, who had immigrated to Canada as a Christian missionary. She was taught as a child to assimilate into Canadian culture, which she wanted very much to do. She became a person who often would not speak, would not question, and did not expect to be heard.
After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the Canadian government began a movement of Japanese people to...
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