Prize Stock

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Prize Stock is a short story by Kenzaburō Ōe, included in his collection "Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness," that explores themes of war, innocence, and the clash between rural Japanese life and foreign presence.

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instanceOf short story
author Kenzaburō Ōe NERFINISHED
collectedIn Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin Japan
explores dehumanization in wartime
loss of innocence
moral ambiguity
power dynamics between captors and captive
featuresCharacter downed foreign airman
genre literary fiction
war fiction
hasMotif captivity
otherness
violence as spectacle
hasSubject Japanese villagers
foreign prisoner of war
hasTranslation English
includedIn Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness NERFINISHED
literaryDevice child’s-eye narrative
irony
symbolism
literaryMovement postwar Japanese literature
mainTheme childhood perspective on violence
clash between rural Japanese life and foreign presence
innocence
war
narrativePerspective first-person
narrator young Japanese boy
notableFor depiction of children’s response to war
portrayal of cultural and linguistic barriers
originalLanguage Japanese
partOf Kenzaburō Ōe’s early works
publisherOfEnglishEdition Grove Press NERFINISHED
relatedWork Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness (collection) NERFINISHED
setting rural Japan
timePeriod World War II era NERFINISHED
tone darkly comic
tragic
translatedBy John Nathan NERFINISHED
workOf Kenzaburō Ōe NERFINISHED

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