The Future of Racial Memory: Forgiveness, Reconciliation, and Redress in Joy Kogawa's Obasan and Itsuka.

The article analyzes Joy Kogawa's context of Japanese-Canadian internment and redress as showed on her book "Obasan and Itsuka." The author argues on the assumption that the thematics of forgiveness and reconciliation that dominate Kogawa's work which is influenced by mixture of Christian and Buddhist heritages undermines resistance to racial persecution, suffering and injustice. According to her, those who dismissed and condemns Kogawa's narratives of forgiveness and reconciliation overlooks the transformative potential she locates in those ideals and its capacity to enable dialogue and communication between victims and victimizers.