Lavish self-divisions
Subtitle: the novels of Joyce Carol Oates
By: Brenda Daly.
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-  -- Criticism and interpretation.; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Psychological fiction, American -- History and criticism.; Self in literature.; Authorship.
Description: Joyce Carol Oates's authorial voice is lavishly diverse. In her works she divides herself into many voices, many persons. This up-to-date examination of Oates's novels argues that the father-identified daughters in her early novels have become, in the novels of the 1980s, self-authoring women who seek alliances with their culturally devalued mothers.

Oates's struggle to resist and transform male-defined literary conventions is often mirrored by the struggles of her female characters to resist and transform social conventions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-263) and index.