NEGOTIATING DESIRE IN JOYCE CAROL OATES’S A FAIR MAIDEN
NEGOTIATING DESIRE IN JOYCE CAROL OATES’S A FAIR MAIDEN
Author(s): Daniela RogobeteSubject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara / Diacritic Timisoara
Keywords: commodification; fetishism; reification; victimization;
Summary/Abstract: Joyce Carol Oates’s, A Fair Maiden, plays with intertextual references to Nabokov’s Lolita and Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland while going deep into the analysis of the American society affected by consumerism and mercantilism. This article focuses upon the strategies Oates uses in order to denounce and criticise the artificial construct of adolescence shaped by consumerism and caught in the enticing web of transactions and negotiations of material, sexual and abstract desires.
Journal: B.A.S. British and American Studies
- Issue Year: 2013
- Issue No: 19
- Page Range: 102-109
- Page Count: 8
- Language: English