Gently to Nagasaki

Resource Information

The work Gently to Nagasaki represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Vaughan Public Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Gently to Nagasaki

Statement of responsibility

Joy Kogawa

Creator

• Kogawa, Joy

Author

• Kogawa, Joy

Subject

• Biographies
• Canada -- Race relations
• Japanese Canadians -- Biography
• Japanese Canadians -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
• Authors, Canadian (English) -- Biography
• Kogawa, Joy -- Childhood and youth
• Kogawa, Joy
• Autobiographies

Genre

• Biography
• Biographies
• Autobiographies

Language

eng

Summary

"Gently to Nagasaki is a spiritual pilgrimage, an exploration both communal and intensely personal. Set in Vancouver and Toronto, the outposts of Slocan and Coaldale, the streets of Nagasaki and the high mountains of Shikoku, Japan, it is also an account of a remarkable life. As a child during WWII, Joy Kogawa was interned with her family and thousands of other Japanese Canadians by the Canadian government. Her acclaimed novel Obasan, based on that experience, brought her literary recognition and played a critical role in the movement for redress. Kogawa knows what it means to be classified as the enemy, and she seeks urgently to get beyond false and dangerous distinctions of "us" and "them." Interweaving the events of her own life with catastrophes like the bombing of Nagasaki and the massacre by the Japanese imperial army at Nanking, she wrestles with essential questions like good and evil, love and hate, rage and forgiveness, determined above all to arrive at her own truths. Poetic and unflinching, this is a longawaited memoir from one of Canada's most distinguished literary elders."--

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

CaOONL

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

general