TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barbara Miceli
PY  - 2021
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2364-2882
SN  - 9783631869550
TI  - A ‘Fourth Way’ to Tell the Story
T2  - Fact and Fiction in Three Novels by Joyce Carol Oates
DO  - 10.3726/b19189
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1152353
N2  - 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.
KW  - Storytelling, Women’s writing, American Society, Suburbs, Memory, History
LA  - English
ER  -