Laura K. Davis in her article on Joy Kogawa's novel points out that '' Obasan has become a classic Canadian text and has achieved great critical success'' (59). It has indeed although it deals with a rather sombre episode of Canadian history, namely the treatment of Japanese Canadians in Canada during the 1940s which, for instance, includes the involuntary displacement of Japanese Canadians out of British Columbia (Miki and Kobayashi 16). In Obasan, Kogawa cleverly uses the historical events of that time to create a fictional account of a family's suffering that stems from her personal knowledge of said events as well as from contemporary testimonies (Cheung 114). This paper attempts to connect historical events and their fictional counterparts
