LONELINESS, VIOLENCE, AND MANIPULATION OF THE NARRATIVE: THE NARRATORS OF "HIGH LONESOME" AND "THE FISH FACTORY" BY JOYCE CAROL OATES

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  • Bruno Souza Buzetto Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM)

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https://doi.org/10.48075/rlhm.v14i24.20128
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Contemporary American Fiction. Joyce Carol Oates. Narrator. Violence. Loneliness.

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Joyce Carol Oates is an American writer whose fiction is considered to be realistic and suspenseful (GARDNER, 1987), grinding, brutal, and harsh (BEDIENT, 1987). In Oates’ collection of short stories High Lonesome – New and Selected Stories (2006), there are two narratives in which a first-person narrator tells a tragic event regarding the death of a close relative. “High Lonesome” and “The Fish Factory” problematize violence and loneliness by emphasizing the fragility of the human condition through the story told by disturbed first-person narrators. The manipulation of storytelling by each narrator produces a narrative in which the events per se are left in the background and the omission of information stands out, so that the boundaries between truthfulness and falseness become blurred. The analysis of each short story allows us to perceive how the narrators’ particular form of manipulation of the narrative reveals their lonely identity as a result of violence and family disruption.

 

Keywords: Contemporary American Fiction. Joyce Carol Oates. Narrator. Violence. Loneliness.

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24-12-2018

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BUZETTO, B. S. LONELINESS, VIOLENCE, AND MANIPULATION OF THE NARRATIVE: THE NARRATORS OF "HIGH LONESOME" AND "THE FISH FACTORY" BY JOYCE CAROL OATES. Revista de Literatura, História e Memória, [S. l.], v. 14, n. 24, p. 183–194, 2018. DOI: 10.48075/rlhm.v14i24.20128. Disponível em: https://e-revista.unioeste.br/index.php/rlhm/article/view/20128. Acesso em: 28 mar. 2024.

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PESQUISA EM LETRAS NO CONTEXTO LATINO-AMERICANO E LITERATURA, ENSINO E CULTURA