Distaste: Joyce Carol Oates and Food

In many of her short stories and novels, Joyce Carol Oates depicts an unhealthy relationship with food. The range of these unhealthy relationships is wide, from overeating to the point of suicide, in Expensive People, to starving oneself in an attempt to deny one’s physical nature, in “Orange” and t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: David Rutledge
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of San Francisco 2014-12-01
Series:Bearing Witness: Joyce Carol Oates Studies
Online Access:http://repository.usfca.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1005&context=jcostudies