This Is My Own: Letters to Wes & Other Writings on Japanese Canadians, 1941-1948 - Couverture souple

Kitagawa, Muriel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0889222304 ISBN 13 : 9780889222304

Editeur : Talonbooks, 1985

Synopsis

This Is My Own: Letters to Wes and Other Writings on Japanese Canadians, 1941-1948 is a collection of letters written by Muriel Kitagawa during this period, as well as statements, essays and manuscripts which arose from Kitagawa's commitment to write about the injustices of the government's policies and to educate the Canadian public on the history and perceptions of Japanese Canadians.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Tsukiye Muriel Kitagawa (1912-1974) was born in Vancouver in 1912. As a Nisei (second generation Japanese Canadian) she was one of 21, 000 people of Japanese ancestry who were interned or forced by the federal government to give up their possessions and leave the west coast of B.C. in 1942. In 1932 Kitagawa was senior editor for The New Age, the first newspaper to express the Nisei perspective and provide an outlet for that generation's expressive thought and literary writing. She also married that year. In 1938 she began writing for The New Canadian, where she was a regular contributor under several pen names. With four young children, including twins born right in the middle of the uprooting of the entire B.C. Japanese Canadian community, Kitagawa and her family moved to Toronto to join her brother Wesley Fujiwara who was attending university there in June of 1942.

Roy Miki grew up in Winnipeg and moved to Vancouver in 1967. He has published widely on Asian Canadian writing, Canadian literature, cultural activism, and contemporary poetry, and has edited works by George Bowering, bpNichol, and Roy K. Kiyooka. He is the author of Redress: Inside the Japanese Canadian Call for Justice (2004) and In Flux: Transnational Shifts in Asian Canadian Writing (2011), as well as six books of poems. His third book of poems, Surrender (2001), received the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry. Cloudy and Clear, his most recent book of poems, is part of Flow. With his wife, Slavia Miki, he has also co-written a children's book, Dolphin SOS (2014), awarded the 2014 Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize. Roy taught in the English department at Simon Fraser University for over thirty years. He received the Order of Canada in 2006 and the Order of British Columbia in 2009.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Talonbooks
• Date d'édition: 1985
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0889222304
• ISBN 13: 9780889222304
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 312
• Éditeur: Miki Roy
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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