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'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?' : Joyce Carol Oates by Elaine Showalter (1994, Trade Paperback)

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'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?': Joyce Carol Oates (Women Writers: Texts and Contexts)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherRutgers University Press

ISBN-100813521351

ISBN-139780813521350

eBay Product ID (ePID)225906

Product Key Features

Book Title'where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?' : Joyce Carol Oates

Number of Pages178 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicPsychological, Short Stories (Single Author), American / General, Literary

Publication Year1994

GenreLiterary Criticism, Fiction

AuthorElaine Showalter

Book SeriesWomen Writers: Texts and Contexts Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight9.3 Oz

Item Length9.1 in

Item Width7 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN94-011284

Table Of ContentIntroduction - Elaine Showalter Chronology Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? - Joyce Carol Oates Background 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 Oates Critical Essays: Existential Allegory: Joyce Carol Oates's "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" - Marie Mitchell Oleson Urbanski A Source for "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" - Tom Quirk The 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. Wegs Oates's "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" - Larry Rubin In 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 Gillis Good Girls, Bad Girls - B. Ruby Rich An Unfilmable Conclusion: Joyce Carol Oates at the Movies - Brenda O. Daly Selected Bibliography Permissions

SynopsisJoyce 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., 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., 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 sixties and seventies witnessed the emergence of Joyce Carol Oates as one of America's foremost writers of the short story. In 1962, 'The Fine White Mist of Winter, ' composed when the author was 19 years old, appeared in The Literary Review and was selected for both the O. Henry Awards and Best American Short Stories of that year.

LC Classification NumberPS3565