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The Issei, Nisei, Sansei of Canada and Brazil A Representations of Home in Obasan and Nihonjin: The Issei, Nisei, Sansei of Canada and Brazil Cecily Raynor McGill University [email protected] A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies ISSN 2254-1179 VOL. 6 (2017) pp. 35-45 • ARTICLES 6ƮƛƦƢƭƭƞƝ $ƜƜƞƩƭƞƝ 01/03/2016 18/01/2017 .ƞƲưƨƫƝƬ Migration; diaspora; Japanese-Brazilian; space; home; time $ƛƬƭƫƚƜƭ Joy Kogawa’s Obasan (1981) and Oscar Nakasato’s Nihonjin (2011) are two novels that narrate the lives of Japanese diaspora in Canada and Brazil respectively. 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