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The Goddess and Other Women

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The Goddess and Other Women
First edition
AuthorJoyce Carol Oates
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
PublisherVanguard Press
Publication date
1974
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages468
ISBN978-0814907450

The Goddess and Other Women is a collection comprising 25 works of short fiction by Joyce Carol Oates and published by Vanguard Press in 1974.[1]


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Stories

Those stories first appearing in literary journals are indicated.[2][3]

Critical Analysis

While the stories in Marriages and Infidelities (1972) had dealt with love relationships and metaphorical marriages, the stories in this collection are unified by the fact that they are all portraits of different types of women.[4]

Joanne V. Creighton points out that the title of this volume refers to the Hindu goddess Kali[5] who appears in the story "The Goddess" as a statuette: "her savage fat-cheeked face fixed in a grin, her many arms outspread, and around her neck what looked like a necklace of skulls."[6] Creighton also quotes from a letter by Oates in which she confirms that Kali is in fact the goddess implied in the collection's title.[7]

Kali is a cruel goddess, the necklace of skulls has to be considered as a symbol of her destructiveness, and she is often depicted as feeding on the entrails of her lovers.[8] Yet Creighton emphasizes that this destructiveness must not be overestimated and that the female characters in The Goddess and Other Women have to be regarded as complex and rather ambiguous figures:

But for all her terribleness, Kali is yet looked upon not as evil but as part of nature's totality: life feeds on life; destruction is an intrinsic part of nature's procreative process. So, rather than portraying women as our literary myths would have them - which, as Leslie Fiedler and others have pointed out, almost invariably depict women as either good or evil - Oates presents them as locked into the destructive form of Kali, unliberated into the totality of female selfhood.[9]

References

  1. ^ Johnson, 1994 p. 218-221: Selected Bibliography, Primary Works
  2. ^ See Short Stories and Tales, pp. 7-47
  3. ^ "The Glass Ark: A Joyce Carol Oates Bibliography". Retrieved 2022-10-24.
  4. ^ Severin, Hermann (1986). The Image of the Intellectual in the Short Stories of Joyce Carol Oates. Frankfurt am Main, Bern, New York: Peter Lang. p. 99. ISBN 3-8204-9623-8.
  5. ^ Creighton, Joanne V. (1979). Joyce Carol Oates. Boston: Twayne. p. 121.
  6. ^ Oates, Joyce Carol (1974). The Goddess and Other Women. New York: Vanguard Press. pp. 407–408.
  7. ^ Creighton, Joanne V. (1979). Joyce Carol Oates. Boston: Twayne. p. 159.
  8. ^ Creighton, Joanne V. (1979). Joyce Carol Oates. Boston: Twayne. p. 121.
  9. ^ Creighton, Joanne V. (1979). Joyce Carol Oates. Boston: Twayne. p. 121.

Sources

  • Johnson, Greg (1994). Joyce Carol Oates: a study of the short fiction. Twayne's studies in short fiction. New York: Twayne publ. ISBN 978-0-8057-0857-8.
  • Lercangee, Francine. 1986. Joyce Carol Oates: An Annotated Bibliography. Garland Publishing, New York and London. ISBN 0-8240-8908-1
  • Oates, Joyce Carol (1992). The Goddess and Other Women. New York City: Vanguard Press. ISBN 978-0814907450.


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