Huckleberry Finn and the American Dream in the Shadow of the Vietnam War

What follows is a translation of the second half of Ōe Kenzaburō's article, America ryokōsha no yume-jigoku ni yuku Huckleberry Finn, which was first published in the September 1966 issue of the monthly Sekai (The World). The untranslated first half begins, "America. I shall never become entirely free from the oppressing, demonic power of the word America," and describes how the writer has lived since boyhood "within the conflicting, extremely complicated [inferiority] complex that the word America evokes

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