Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates - Joyce Carol Oates

Throughout this anthology, Oates discusses how her writing paints a modern panorama of American life. Oates described her vast canvas to an interviewer: “I could not take the time to write about a group of people who did not represent, in their various struggles, fantasies, unusual experiences, hopes, etc., our society in miniature.” She also comments upon her responsibility as an artist “to bear witness” to certain aspects of society. In this light, she responds to criticisms that violence seems to dominate her work by noting that “one simply cannot know strengths unless suffering, misfortune, and violence are explored quite frankly by t

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