Photographic (Over) Exposures in the Nuclear Age in Joyce Carol Oates’s You Must Remember This

Photographic (Over) Exposures in the Nuclear Age in Joyce Carol Oates’s You Must Remember This

Joyce Carol Oates’s novel, You Must Remember This, examines themes of memory, time, and nostalgia through verbal descriptions of iconic and fictional photographs (such as Rocky Marciano, Holocaust Victims, Atomic Mushroom Clouds, Rita Hayworth). An analysis of the photographic imagery in the novel r...

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Main Author: Sonia Weiner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of San Francisco 2019-11-01
Series:Bearing Witness: Joyce Carol Oates Studies
Online Access:https://repository.usfca.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1031&context=jcostudies
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spelling doaj-e53618ee147b429ba94bfa5b6ebdb0802020-11-25T02:07:03ZengUniversity of San FranciscoBearing Witness: Joyce Carol Oates Studies2373-275X2019-11-015110.15867/331917.5.1Photographic (Over) Exposures in the Nuclear Age in Joyce Carol Oates’s You Must Remember ThisSonia Weiner0Tel Aviv UniversityJoyce Carol Oates’s novel, You Must Remember This, examines themes of memory, time, and nostalgia through verbal descriptions of iconic and fictional photographs (such as Rocky Marciano, Holocaust Victims, Atomic Mushroom Clouds, Rita Hayworth). An analysis of the photographic imagery in the novel reveals discrepancies between surface appearances and embedded social and cultural ideological contexts within the work. Photographs are shown to undermine the overt conformity and conservatism of postwar America by exposing its underlying uncertainties and tensions. These tensions are explored through the perspective of a rebellious adolescent female, whose struggles highlight Oates’s critique of power, violence, and postwar era constructions of gender.https://repository.usfca.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1031&context=jcostudies
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description Joyce Carol Oates’s novel, You Must Remember This, examines themes of memory, time, and nostalgia through verbal descriptions of iconic and fictional photographs (such as Rocky Marciano, Holocaust Victims, Atomic Mushroom Clouds, Rita Hayworth). An analysis of the photographic imagery in the novel reveals discrepancies between surface appearances and embedded social and cultural ideological contexts within the work. Photographs are shown to undermine the overt conformity and conservatism of postwar America by exposing its underlying uncertainties and tensions. These tensions are explored through the perspective of a rebellious adolescent female, whose struggles highlight Oates’s critique of power, violence, and postwar era constructions of gender.
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