My essay 'Young and Politically Incorrect: Oe Kenzaburo's Early Marginal Heroes', originally published in Japan and Korea: Contemporary Studies (Edited by Bjarke Frellesvig and Roy Starrs (Aarhus University Press, 1997), has now been re-published in the Short Story Criticism-series of Gale (Volume 176, p204-209). Besides essays on Oe, this volume also contains criticism on the work by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Philip Roth.