'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'

Joyce Carol Oates

AvElaine Showalter

Häftad, Engelska, 1994

Del i serien Women Writers: Texts and Contexts

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Beskrivning

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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Utgivningsdatum:1994-11-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt:254 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Women Writers: Texts and Contexts
Antal sidor:178
Förlag:Rutgers University Press
ISBN:9780813521350

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Elaine Showalter is Avalon Foundation Professor of Humanities at Princeton University. She is the author and editor of many books on women’s writing, including Sister’s Choice: Tradition and Change in American Women’s Writing.

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Introduction - Elaine ShowalterChronologyWhere Are You Going, Where Have You Been? - Joyce Carol OatesBackground to the Story:The Pied Piper of Tucson: He Cruised in a Golden Car, Looking for the Action - Don Moser"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" and Smooth Talk: Short Story into Film - Joyce Carol OatesCritical Essays:Existential Allegory: Joyce Carol Oates's "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" - Marie Mitchell Oleson UrbanskiA Source for "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" - Tom QuirkThe Stranger Within: Two Stories by Oates and Hawthorne - Joan D. Winslow"Don't You Know Who I Am?": The Grotesque in Oates's "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" - Joyce M. WegsOates's "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" - Larry RubinIn Fairyland, without a Map: Connie's Exploration Inward in Joyce Carol Oates's "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" - Gretchen Schultz and R.J.R. Rockwood"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?": Seduction, Space, and a Fictional Mode - Christina Marsden GillisGood Girls, Bad Girls - B. Ruby RichAn Unfilmable Conclusion: Joyce Carol Oates at the Movies - Brenda O. DalySelected BibliographyPermissions