Monthly Archives: October 2013

The idea of redress is not unique to Joy Kagawa’s Obasan. Of course, her redress is incredibly effective. She writes the story of the lives of a Japanese-Canadian family broken by the Canadian government during World War II. Kagawa herself believes … Continue reading →

This week in class, we read both Literature, Imagination, and Human Rights by Willie van Peer and Democratic Citizenship and the Narrative Imagination by Martha Nussbaum. Just through the titles of both articles, it is clear that they are related. … Continue reading →