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Summary THE Unsurrenderd Peoples
Issue That Matter (ISTM44)
Mahatma Gandhi University
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SUMMARY: THE UNSURRENDERED PEOPLE
The unsurrendered people is an essay written by KENZABURO OE. Kenzaburo oe is a well known Japanese writer of fiction, essays, memoirs, criticism and cultural commentary. His post war chronicles are important for their documentation aspect. In 1994 he became the second Japanese citizen to receive the Nobel Prize for literature. His writing about the bombing of Hiroshima was instrumental in winning him the prize. The Nobel committee considered his work 8The silent cry9 to be his masterpiece. His storytelling abilities can be partly credited to his mother and grandmother. Oe won Japan9s highest literary award, the Akutagawa prize, at the age of 23. That same year he published his first novel 8Nip the buds, shoot the kids9. His disabled son Hikari has had a major influence on much of his writings. A personal matter is considered to be Oe9s most famous novel. The extract for study is taken from the book Hiroshima notes published in 1965. This is a long essay on how the atomic bombing on Japan affected peoples lives. Oe create an imaginative link between his disabled son and
those who are affected by the nuclear issue. The book brought Oe international recognition. The world can no longer be divided into just good and evil. But the arrival of the atomic bomb was seen as the arrival of absolute evil. To balance this evil it became necessary to have absolute good, especially through goodwill. Following the dropping of the atomic bomb, there were concerted efforts to reinstate life in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Writer has a kind of nightmare when it comes to trusting human capability or humanism. His nightmare comes from a suspicion that this kind of humanism comes from the dropping of the atomic bomb. The humanism he sees is as follows: the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima would produce a kind of hell. But it is not the kind of hell from which one can never recover. Rather it is the type of health which brings out good. People will try to make this hell of Hiroshima as humane as possible. Those who dropped the bomb would have thought this way. If the bomb had been dropped in Leopoldville in Congo many would have died instantly. Wounded survivors would have continued to die over a period of many month. Diseases and pests would have spread till the city eventually
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Summary THE Unsurrenderd Peoples
Course: Issue That Matter (ISTM44)
University: Mahatma Gandhi University
