SOURCE: Cargas, Harry James. “Fiction of Shame.” Christian Century 112, no. 12 (12 April 1995): 382-83.
In the following essay, Cargas argues that guilt functions as a major component of the Japanese psyche and Ōe's fiction, particularly in A Personal Matter.
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