Obasan | Literary Precedents
Kogawa has drawn upon her own life for most of her writing, including her first collection of poetry, published in 1967, titled The Splintered Moon. In this collection, the writer reflected upon her marriage. Her next three collections were also autobiographical in nature, and she began exploring many of the themes she later fleshed out in Obasan. She wrote of living a hybrid life as a Japanese-Canadian Nisei; divorce; an abortion in 1971; deaths in her family, specifically her uncle and mother; the silence of Obasan, her aunt; and the militancy of women seeking justice and...
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