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'Where are You Going, Where Have You Been?' (Women Writers. Text & Contexts)
'Where are You Going Where Have You Been' - Women Writers. Text & Contexts Author:Joyce Carol Oates, Elaine Showalter (Editor) 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. This casebook includes an introduction by the editor, a chronology of Oates's life, an authoritative text of the story, ten critical essays, and a bibliography... more ».
Introduction / Elaine Showalter --
Chronology --
Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates --
Background to the story. The Pied Piper of Tucson : he cruised in a golden car, looking for the action / Don Moser --
"Where are you going, where have you been?" and Smooth Talk : short story into film / Joyce Carol Oates --
Critical essays. Existential allegory : Joyce Carol Oates's "Where are you going, where have you been? / Marie Mitchell Oleson Urbanski --
A source for "Where are you going, where have you been?" / Tom Quirk --
The stranger within : two stories by Oates and Hawthorne / Joan D. Winslow --
"Don't you know who I am?" : the grotesque in Oates's "Where are you going, where have you been?" / Joyce M. Wegs --
Oates's "Where are you going, where have you been?" / Larry Rubin --
In fairyland, without a map : Connie's exploration inward in Joyce Carol Oates's "Where are you going, where have you been?" / Gretchen Schulz, R.J.R. Rockwood --
"Where are you going, where have you been?" : seduction, space, and a fictional mode / Christina Marsden Gillis --
Good girls, bad girls / B. Ruby Rich --
An unfilmable conclusion : Joyce Carol Oates at the movies / Brenda O. Daly« less