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