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Where are You Going, Where Have You Been? Joyce Carol Oates

Where are You Going, Where Have You Been? By Joyce Carol Oates

Where are You Going, Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates


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Joyce Carol Oates's prize-winning story Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? takes up troubling subjects that continue to occupy her in her fiction. This casebook includes an introduction by the editor, a chronology of Oates's life, an authoritative text of the story, ten critical essays, and a bibliography

Where are You Going, Where Have You Been? Summary

Where are You Going, Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates's prize-winning story Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? takes up troubling subjects that continue to occupy her in her fiction: the romantic longings and limited options of adolescent women; the tensions between mothers and daughters; the sexual victimization of women; and the American obsession with violence. Inspired by a magazine story about a serial killer, its remarkable portrait of the dreamy teenager Connie has made it a feminist classic. Connie's life anticipates the emergence of American society from the social innocence of the fifties into the harsher contemporary realities of war, random violence, and crime. The story was the basis for the movie Smooth Talk, which became the subject of much feminist debate.
This casebook includes an introduction by the editor, a chronology of Oates's life, an authoritative text of Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been, an essay by Oates on Smooth Talk, the original Life article about the serial killer, ten critical essays (including two about the film), and a bibliography.
The contributors are Brenda O. Daly, Christina Marsden Gillis, Don Moser, Tom Quirk, B. Ruby Rich, R.J.R. Rockwood, Larry Rubin, Gretchen Schulz, Marie Mitchell Oleson Urbanski, Joyce M. Wegs, Marilyn C. Wesley, and Joan D. Winslow.

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CIN0813521351G
9780813521350
0813521351
Where are You Going, Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates
Used - Good
Paperback
Rutgers University Press
19941231
165
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