A Comparative Study of Joy Kogawa’s "Obasan" and Ene Mihkelson’s "Ahasveeruse uni" in the Light of Trauma Theory
A Comparative Study of Joy Kogawa’s "Obasan" and Ene Mihkelson’s "Ahasveeruse uni" in the Light of Trauma Theory

Summary/Abstract: "At first glance the Japanese-Canadian writer Joy Kogawa’s Obasan (1981) and the Estonian writer Ene Mihkelson’s Ahasveeruse uni (The Sleep of Ahasuerus) (2001) seem to have little in common considering the different historical, political, social and cultural realities that inform the Japanese-Canadian and Estonian experience, not to mention the divergence in some of the main concerns as well as the narrative techniques, structural and stylistic aspects of the novels."[...]

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