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| | Kenzaburo Oe - Biography |
 | | Kenzaburo Oe was born in 1935, in a village hemmed in by the forests of Shikoku, one of the four main islands of Japan. |
 | | The women of the Oe clan had long assumed the role of storytellers and had related the historical events of the region, including the two uprisings that occurred there before and after the Meiji Restoration. |
 | | Michiko N.Wilson, Oe's Obsessive Metaphor, Mori, the Idiot Son: Toward the Imagination of Satire, Regeneration, and Grotesque Realism, The Journal of Japanese Studies 1981 H. Michiko N.Wilson, The Marginal World of Oe Kenzaburo: A Study in Themes and Techniques, New York, London: Armonk, Sharpe, 1986. |
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