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Masturbation, the Emperor, and the Language of the Sublime in Oe Kenzaburo

Masturbation, the Emperor, and the Language of the Sublime in Oe Kenzaburo positions 2:1 Q 1994 by Duke University Press. positions 2 : 1 Spring 1994 time in the history of modern Japanese literature masturbation forms the central motif of a work; (6) masturbation is described in the incomparably explicit language of Oe; and (c) the protagonist’s masturbation becomes linked to his emperor worship in the course of the story. There is no doubt that this text appeared as a scandal. We may say that its scandalousness resulted from the text’s forceful conjunction of the political with the sexual, the factual with the fictional, and the sacrosanct with the vulgar. Consequently,Oe as well as the publisher of the journal Bungakukai received threats from right-wing organizations. T h e second part, “Seiji sh6nen shisu,” is still silenced, yet to be reprinted in Oe’s collected works or in any other book form. The journal Bungakukai printed an apology in its March 1961 issue for any inconvenience that the story might have caused individuals and political organizations whose identities may be conjectured from Oe’s story.’ The protagonist of the story was indeed modeled on an actual seventeen-year-old youth who stabbed to death the chairman of the Socialist party, Asanuma Inajiro, on 1 2 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png positions asia critique Duke University Press

Masturbation, the Emperor, and the Language of the Sublime in Oe Kenzaburo

Hirata, Hosea
positions asia critique , Volume 2 (1) – Mar 1, 1994
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positions 2:1 Q 1994 by Duke University Press. positions 2 : 1 Spring 1994 time in the history of modern Japanese literature masturbation forms the central motif of a work; (6) masturbation is described in the incomparably explicit language of Oe; and (c) the protagonist’s masturbation becomes linked to his emperor worship in the course of the story. There is no doubt that this text appeared as a scandal. We may say that its scandalousness resulted from the text’s forceful conjunction of the political with the sexual, the factual with the fictional, and the sacrosanct with the vulgar. Consequently,Oe as well as the publisher of the journal Bungakukai received threats from right-wing organizations. T h e second part, “Seiji sh6nen shisu,” is still silenced, yet to be reprinted in Oe’s collected works or in any other book form. The journal Bungakukai printed an apology in its March 1961 issue for any inconvenience that the story might have caused individuals and political organizations whose identities may be conjectured from Oe’s story.’ The protagonist of the story was indeed modeled on an actual seventeen-year-old youth who stabbed to death the chairman of the Socialist party, Asanuma Inajiro, on 1 2

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