Joyce Carol Oates



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American author Joyce Carol Oates often features violence—physical and psychological—as a central part of her characters’ lives. In this discussion of her novel them (1969), she talks about the ability of humans to overcome the destructive forces around them.

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American Literature: Prose; Oates, Joyce Carol

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