The Coming-of-Age Narrative of Confessional Healing in Joy Kogawa’s Obasan
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Kogawa’s Obasan is a bildungsroman that portrays the narrator Naomi Nakane’s transformation in the wake of her clan’s internment during WWII. Naomi reaches adulthood, in a manner that she changes from an infantile and silent Japanese subject, traumatized by the mysterious absence of her mother as well as her wartime experiences, to a “healthy” Canadian subject. Naomi’s coming of age, as a result, is accompanied by a growing pain, a racial injury and grief that she pays for, while fleshing out a new Canadian subjectivity in exchange for the memory of her “skeleton” mother.” Indebted to Anne A. Cheng’s theory of racial melancholia, this paper shows that the first step towards curing Japanese Canadians’ racial injury is to be able to recognize that they themselves are disciplined to be invisible and silent vis-à-vis white authority, thus allowing them to regain their voice and to reclaim their national identity as Japanese CANADIANs rather than JAPANESE Canadians.
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Kogawa’s Obasan is a bildungsroman that portrays the narrator Naomi Nakane’s transformation in the wake of her clan’s internment during WWII. Naomi reaches adulthood, in a manner that she changes from an infantile and silent Japanese subject, traumatized by the mysterious absence of her mother as well as her wartime experiences, to a “healthy” Canadian subject. Naomi’s coming of age, as a result, is accompanied by a growing pain, a racial injury and grief that she pays for, while fleshing out a new Canadian subjectivity in exchange for the memory of her “skeleton” mother.” Indebted to Anne A. Cheng’s theory of racial melancholia, this paper shows that the first step towards curing Japanese Canadians’ racial injury is to be able to recognize that they themselves are disciplined to be invisible and silent vis-à-vis white authority, thus allowing them to regain their voice and to reclaim their national identity as Japanese CANADIANs rather than JAPANESE Canadians.
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