Hybridism and Self-Reconstruction in Joyce Carol Oates’s A Widow’s Story
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6188453 |
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| Authors | Pascale Antolin (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2015-08-14 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1991-9336 • E-ISSN: 1991-9336 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/ejas.11092 |
| OpenAlex | W1166899114 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
This article analyzes Joyce Carol Oates’s hybridism in her 2011 memoir, A Widow’s Story, as a powerful means of self-assertion and self-reconstruction. It suggests that to write about her painful experience of bereavement Oates resorts to hybridism—generic, narrative and typographic in particular—as it is both a characteristic of her fiction and a means of dramatizing her experience. This hybridism helps her not only express her emotional “derangement” but also recover her identity as a writer. Thus her narrative manifests confusion and continuity, chaos and control, inconsolability and consolation at one and the same time
Aesthetics · Art · Assertion · Confusion · Consolation · Identity (music · Literature · Memoir · Narrative · Psychoanalysis · Computer Science · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · History · Philosophy · Psychology · Short Stories in Global Literature
| Highly cited | No |
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