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Literature of Change in the 1960s: Yukio Mishima and Kenzaburo Oe
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Today, we’re talking about the literature of change in the 1960s—how writers took on questions about what it meant to be Japanese in the post-war era and what was the continuing role of Japanese tradition.
We’re looking especially at Yukio Mishima and Kenzaburo Oe.
cw: fascism, suicide
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