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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European Association for American Studies
2015-09-01
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| Series: | European Journal of American Studies |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ejas/11092 |