Title: Lavish self-divisions
First published: 1996
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.
Subjects: American Psychological fiction, Authorship, Criticism and interpretation, History, History and criticism, Psychological fiction, American, Self in literature, Women and literature, Art d'ecrire, Femmes et litterature, American, LITERARY CRITICISM, Critique et interpretation, Moi (Psychologie) dans la litterature, Histoire, General, Romans, Oates, joyce carol, 1938-
Places: United States
People: Joyce Carol Oates (1938-)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PS3565.A8 Z635 1996