A 'Fourth Way' to Tell the Story: Fact and Fiction in Three Novels by Joyce Carol Oates

ISBN-13: 9783631867921 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 168 str.

Barbara Miceli

Opis

The study analyzes the factual and fictional elements in three novels by Joyce Carol Oates. The innovative genre used, which separates itself from previous similar forms of fact writing, aims to give a new voice to females who died in mysterious circumstances, and to provide a criticism of contemporary American society and its treatment of women.

Spis treści

1. Black Water: The Reconstruction of a Forgotten Character

1. The Chappaquiddick Incident

2. Blonde: A Reconstruction of the Self beyond the Myth

1. Marilyn Monroe and the Problem of Identity

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

1. The Ramsey Case

O autorze

Barbara Miceli holds a PhD in Euro-American Studies from Roma Tre University (Italy) and she is Assistant Professor at the University of Gdañsk (Poland) where she teaches American Studies subjects. She specializes in the relationship between fact and fiction in the contemporary American novel.