SOURCE: "Günter Grass's The Tin Drum and Ōe Kenzaburô's My Tears: A Study in Convergence," in Contemporary Literature, Vol. 34, No. 4, Winter, 1993, pp. 740-66.
In this essay, Nemoto compares Ōe's "The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away" to Günter Grass's The Tin Drum, arguing that the two works use similar techniques to critique the actions of Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany in World War II.
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