Joyce Carol Oates | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 22 pages of analysis & critique of Joyce Carol Oates.

Joyce Carol Oates | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 22 pages of analysis & critique of Joyce Carol Oates.
This section contains 5,829 words
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SOURCE: Chauche, Catherine. “Joyce Carol Oates in Berlin: The Birth of a Myth.” Journal of the Short Story in English, no. 14 (spring 1990): 9-23.

In the following essay, Chauche asserts that “Our Wall,” “Ich bin ein Berliner,” and “Lamb of Abyssalia” “go through the stages of the imperceptible passage from history to mythology.”

“Parts of the Wall are taken down …”

Herald Tribune, November 11, 1989.

« Si les manifestants avaient voulu forcer la Porte de Brandebourg, symbole entre tous de l'enfermement, il n'aurait été du pouvoir d'aucune police … de les en empêcher … Jamais une révolution n'aura été si pacifique … Elle prouve que, contrairement à ce que l'on a cru longtemps, la résignation au totalitarisme n'a qu'un temps, et que rien n'est plus naturel à l'homme que l'aspiration à la liberté. »

André Fontaine, Le Monde, November 11, 1989.

The Berlin Wall, as it appears in “Our Wall,” a collection of six short-stories, gives rise to...

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