Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
A Horror, Academic, Read For School book. Recently she had been going through a period of adolescent melancholia, often talking with her mother, a nurse,...
Joyce Carol Oates’s prize-winning story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” takes up troubling subjects that continue to occupy her in her fiction: the romantic longings and limited options of adolescent women; the tensions between mothers and daughters; the sexual victimization of women; and the American obsession with violence. Inspired by a magazine story about a serial killer, its remarkable portrait of the dreamy teenager Connie has made it a feminist classic. Connie’s life anticipates the emergence of American society from the social innocence of the fifties into the harsher contemporary realities of war, random violence, and crime. The story was the basis for the movie Smooth Talk, which became the subject of much feminist debate. This casebook includes an introduction by the editor, a chronology of Oates’s life, an authoritative...
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Recently she had been going through a period of adolescent melancholia, often talking with her mother, a nurse, about death. She would, she hoped, be some day reincarnated as a cat. Joyce Carol Oates, Where are You Going, Where Have You Been? I can manifest my neurotical emotions, emancipate an epicureal instinct, and elaborate on my heterosexual tendencies. Joyce Carol Oates, Where are You Going, Where Have You Been?
Unsettling and chilling. This short story unfolds with an oily elegance that I don't think I've experienced before. The atmosphere changes so subtly that you don't realize how uncomfortable you are until it's too late. It already has you in its grip. Where you belong. Not really interested in the rest of the book's content, the (over)analyses... I wish there were more books like these that would further discuss JCO's writing. So many times after reading a piece that she wrote I am left wondering about many things that I have just read, and being able to read reviews and essays would help me understand alot more. Choices, throughout our lifetime we must all make them. Can you remember how difficult it was to choose an outfit during the emotional hurricane known as adolescence? Joyce Carol Oates Where are you going, where have you been?, depicts a teenagers hormonally distorted views of sexuality, vanity, and the dangers that come with it. For...
