Joy Kogawa fonds [sound recording]
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Joy Kogawa fonds [sound recording]
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Record information Joy Kogawa fonds [sound recording]
Date:1975.Reference:R5678-0-0-EType of material:Sound recordingsFound in:Archives / Collections and FondsItem ID number:180711Date(s):1975.Place of creation:CanadaExtent:3 audio reels (9 h, 31 min).Language of material:EnglishAdded language of material:English, JapaneseScope and content:Fonds consists of oral history interviews by Joy Kogawa, John Shozawa, Percy Bunt and Margaret Ridgeway with Japanese Canadians whose ancestors were early immigrants to Canada, the founder of the Canadian Japanese Mission, and the superintendent of Home Mission about Japanese Canadians. Fonds also includes a talk in Japanese by Mr. Chotte Nishima of Taber, Alberta, about his life as an immigrant.Provenance:Biography/Administrative history:Kogawa, Joy (1935- ) : Joy Kogawa is known for her novels, poetry, essays, and activism. She was born in Vancouver in 1935. As a second-generation Japanese Canadian or nisei, she has told the stories of Japanese-Canadians in her writing. Kogawa and her family were evacuated to Slocan, British Columbia and later to Coaldale, Alberta during the Second World War. She has also been involved in seeking redress from the Canadian government for the internment of twenty thousand Japanese Canadians during World War II. She was made a Member of the Order of Canada. From 1983 to 1985 Kogawa worked with the National Association of Japanese Canadians. Under the War Measures Act in 1942, many Japanese Canadians had lost their property and possessions. Kogawa pursued studies in education at the University of Alberta and taught elementary school in Coaldale for a year. She then studied music at the University of Toronto followed by studies at the Anglican Women's Training College and the University of Saskatchewan. In 1957, she married, had two children, and divorced in 1968. Joy Kogawa has published several collections of poetry, essays, children's literature and the novels Obasan, Istuka, and The Rain Ascends. Obasan won several book awards; it focuses on Japanese Canadians and the injustices they experienced during and after the Second World War. The central character of this book is Naomi, who reappears in Kogawa's children's book, Naomi's Road and again in Itsuka. The latter text concentrates on the emotional and political involvement of Naomi in the Japanese-Canadian redress movement. Kogawa's most recent novel, The Rain Ascends, deals with an emotional issue of a different kind: the sexual abuse of children by a Protestant clergyman. Website: 1040Additional information:General note:Received in 1975 from Joy Kogawa.Custodial history:The National Archives rerecorded the original recordings to audio reels and returned the originals to Joy Kogawa in 1975.Location of originals note:Originals held by Joy Kogawa.Source:Private -
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