Hybridism and Self-Reconstruction in Joyce Carol Oates’s A Widow’s Story

This article analyzes Joyce Carol Oates’s hybridism in her 2011 memoir, A Widow’s Story, as a powerful means of self-assertion and self-reconstruction. It suggests that to write about her painful experience of bereavement Oates resorts to hybridism—generic, narrative and typographic in particular—as...

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Main Author: Pascale Antolin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Association for American Studies 2015-09-01
Series:European Journal of American Studies
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/11092
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