Abstract
Joyce Carol Oates, one of the most distinguished contemporary novelists in America, is well-known for her prolificacy and the writing of violence. This paper probes a common trait of several girls in the novel Foxfire, that is, silence or aphasia, which represents the social characteristics of the whole society in the first half of the 1950s. However, girls in the novel are not willing to submit to the outside social pressure. They manage to profess their rights through a command of letters and violence.
| Translated title of the contribution | Girls professing : on Foxfire : Confessions of A Girl Gang |
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| Original language | Chinese (Simplified) |
| Pages (from-to) | 94-97 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Chongqing Ligong Daxue Xuebao (Journal of Chongqing University of Technology (Social Science)) |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| Publication status | Published - 2013 |
Keywords
- Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
- criticism and interpretation
- Foxfire: Confessions of A Girl Gang