World Literature: Asia

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The paper analyzes Ai Qing's poem "Dayanhe-My Wet-Nurse" and Yukio Mishima's short story "Patriotism." The paper demonstrates how the authors both use the metaphor of a male-female relationship to explore themes of national identity and the relationship of the individual to the state.

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"Introduction: Yukio Mishima's short story "Patriotism" and Ai Qing's poem "Dayahnhe-My Wet-Nurse" both employ the device of a male-female relationship as a metaphor for love of a country. In each work, the authors construct their notion of Japanese and Chinese nationhood, though those constructs are quite different. In Windschuttle's commentary on Edward Said's "Orientalism" the author notes that; "The construction of identity in every age and every society involves established opposites and others.""

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