Joy Kogawa - Obasan (1981)

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People who talk a lot about their victimization make me uncomfortable. It's as if they use their suffering as weapons or badges of some kind.

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The language of her grief is silence. She has learned it well, its idioms, its nuances. Over the years, silence within her small body has grown large and powerful.

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