{"product_id":"where-are-you-going-where-have-you-been-joyce-carol-oates-paperback-softback-9780813521350","title":"'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'; Joyce Carol Oates (Paperback \/ softback) 9780813521350","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003e'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eJoyce Carol Oates\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eElaine Showalter (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813521350\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 November 1994\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e178 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm, 0.254 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJoyce 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 \u003ci\u003eSmooth Talk,\u003c\/i\u003e which became the subject of much feminist debate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis casebook includes an introduction by the editor, a chronology of Oates’s life, an authoritative text of “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been,” an essay by Oates on \u003ci\u003eSmooth Talk\u003c\/i\u003e, the original \u003ci\u003eLife\u003c\/i\u003e article about the serial killer, ten critical essays (including two about the film), and a bibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe contributors are Brenda O. Daly, Christina Marsden Gillis, Don Moser, Tom Quirk, B. Ruby Rich, R.J.R. Rockwood, Larry Rubin, Gretchen Schulz, Marie Mitchell Oleson Urbanski, Joyce M. Wegs, Marilyn C. Wesley, and Joan D. Winslow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eIntroduction - Elaine Showalter\u003cbr\u003e Chronology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? - Joyce Carol Oates\u003cbr\u003e Background to the Story:\u003cbr\u003e The Pied Piper of Tucson: He Cruised in a Golden Car, Looking for the Action - Don Moser\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003cbr\u003eWhere Are You Going, Where Have You Been?\"\u003cbr\u003e and Smooth Talk: Short Story into Film - Joyce Carol Oates\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Critical Essays:\u003cbr\u003e Existential Allegory: Joyce Carol Oates's \"\u003cbr\u003eWhere Are You Going, Where Have You Been?\"\u003cbr\u003e - Marie Mitchell Oleson Urbanski\u003cbr\u003e A Source for \"\u003cbr\u003eWhere Are You Going, Where Have You Been?\"\u003cbr\u003e - Tom Quirk\u003cbr\u003e The Stranger Within: Two Stories by Oates and Hawthorne - Joan D. Winslow\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003cbr\u003eDon't You Know Who I Am?\"\u003cbr\u003e: The Grotesque in Oates's \"\u003cbr\u003eWhere Are You Going, Where Have You Been?\"\u003cbr\u003e - Joyce M. Wegs\u003cbr\u003e Oates's \"\u003cbr\u003eWhere Are You Going, Where Have You Been?\"\u003cbr\u003e - Larry Rubin\u003cbr\u003e In Fairyland, without a Map: Connie's Exploration Inward in Joyce Carol Oates's \"\u003cbr\u003eWhere Are You Going, Where Have You Been?\"\u003cbr\u003e - Gretchen Schultz and R.J.R. Rockwood\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003cbr\u003eWhere Are You Going, Where Have You Been?\"\u003cbr\u003e: Seduction, Space, and a Fictional Mode - Christina Marsden Gillis\u003cbr\u003e Good Girls, Bad Girls - B. Ruby Rich\u003cbr\u003e An Unfilmable Conclusion: Joyce Carol Oates at the Movies - Brenda O. Daly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Selected Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Permissions\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52551695302936,"sku":"9780813521350","price":23.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/where-are-you-going-where-have-you-been-joyce-carol-oates-paperback-softback-9780813521350","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}