- Description
Kevin Irie explores the Japanese–Canadian internment during World War II through lyrical and erasure poems in Evacuations. This collection uses archival materials such as government notices and media material to carve out the trauma and reality of internment and racism. The poems feature a variety of themes including intergenerational trauma, dispossession, loss, and complicity in legacies of racism. While individual poems or the entire work could be used in English language arts lessons to explore blackout poems or for literary analysis, the use of archival documents and direct connection to Japanese–Canadian internment could also make it a useful inclusion in social studies lessons addressing that point in Canada’s history.
- ISBN
- 9781772128536
- List Price
- $19.99
- ISBN
- 9781772128604
- List Price
- $19.99
Evacuations
By Kevin Irie (Author)
