A 'Fourth Way' to Tell the Story : Fact and Fiction in Three Novels by Joyce Carol Oates (Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture 36) （2021. 168 S. 210 mm）

Miceli, Barbara/ Herausgegeben:Wilczynski, Marek

PETER LANG（2021発売）

PETER LANG（2021発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 168 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9783631867921

Full Description

This study is an analysis of the novels Black Water (1992), Blonde (2000), and My Sister, My Love (2008) by Joyce Carol Oates. Based on real-life characters (Mary Jo Kopechne, Marilyn Monroe, JonBenét Ramsey), these works blend fact and fiction, historical and poetic truth, and create a new way to recount facts that allow the writer to give a new voice to people who cannot speak for themselves anymore. The present book addresses the stories behind the novels, their genre and stylistic features, but is also an exploration of several aspects of American culture and society and their issues connected to consumerism, the cult of beauty and celebrity, and how they affect American women's lives and power relations with men.

Contents

Black Water: The Reconstruction of a Forgotten Character

The Chappaquiddick Incident

Blonde: A Reconstruction of the Self beyond the Myth

Marilyn Monroe and the Problem of Identity

My Sister, My Love: Memory, Forgetting and Social Criticism

The Ramsey Case