Document Type
Article
Abstract
This essay uses Joy Kogawa’s novel Obasan as a means to reflect upon the relationship between cultural assimilation and return. The novel dramatizes how we carry within ourselves remnants of the past, as inherited through family history and memories. It appears that for those who leave their place of birth, a constant nostalgia without cure creates a new geography that has little to do with concrete landscapes, and more to do with affective reconstructions.
Repository Citation
Florescu, Catalina F.. "Impossible Returns through Joy Kogawa’s Novel Obasan." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 11, no. 1, 2011, pp. 1–9. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol11/iss1/9
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