📕书籍信息
- 书名:’Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been_’
- 作者:Joyce Carol Oates,Elaine Showalter
- 豆瓣评分:⭐8.6
- 出版社:Rutgers University Press
- isbn:DB-1510400
- 出版日期:1994-11-01
- 价格:USD 19.95
- 豆瓣:‘Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been_’
🌵内容简介
【编辑推荐】:
Joyce Carol Oates’s prize-winning story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” takes up troubling subjects that continue to occupy her in her fiction: the romantic longings and limited options of adolescent women; the tensions between mothers and daughters; the sexual victimization of women; and the American obsession with violence. Inspired by a magazine story about a serial killer, its remarkable portrait of the dreamy teenager Connie has made it a feminist classic. Connie’s life anticipates the emergence of American society from the social innocence of the fifties into the harsher contemporary realities of war, random violence, and crime. The story was the basis for the movie Smooth Talk, which became the subject of much feminist debate. This casebook includes an introduction by the editor, a chronology of Oates’s life, and authoritative text of “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” an essay by Oates on Smooth Talk, the original Life article about the serial killer, ten critical essays (including two about the film), and a bibliography. The contributors are Brenda O. Daly, Christina Marsden Gillis, Don Moser, Tom Quirk, B. Ruby Rich, R.J.R. Rockwood, Larry Rubin, Gretchen Schultz, Marie Mitchell Oleson Urbanski, Joyce M. Wegs, and Joan D. Winslow. Elaine Showalter is Avalon Foundation Professor of Humanities at Princeton University. She is the author and editor of many books on women’s writing, including Sister’s Choice: Tradition and Change in American Women’s Writing. A volume in the Women Writers: Texts and Contexts Series.
📣听过的人说…
🧐讀書筆記 –
以前老师发的一篇对这本书的解读。
其实这篇short story是根据真实事件改编的,作者的写作动机是通过一个十五岁女孩的视角来展现一个连环杀人犯如何诱骗这样的女孩并杀害她们。
老师对blue-eye gril的解读:在Friend的眼里,Connie仅仅是一个他脑海里一个pretty virgin的符号,因此他并没有真正在意她到底是什么样子的,这也是为什么他会认为Connie拥有一双blue eyes。为什么是blue eyes呢?这一点在图片的文章中也提到,blue eyes是对天真纯洁女孩们的代称与臆想。
笨笨的我当时看完并没有很好领悟到故事的sex主题(虽然隐隐约约会猜到一些),其实这个主题在Friend对Connie说的话有很多的体现,比如说“It is real nice and you couldn’t ask for nobody better than me, or more polite.”那一段。希望图片文章提供的写作背景能帮助大家更好地解读这篇short story。

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