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    A Study Guide for Joyce Carol Oates's "When I Was a Little Girl and My Mother Didn’t Want Me "
    A Study Guide for Joyce Carol Oates's "When I Was a Little Girl and My Mother Didn’t Want Me "
    A Study Guide for Joyce Carol Oates's "When I Was a Little Girl and My Mother Didn’t Want Me "
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    A Study Guide for Joyce Carol Oates's "When I Was a Little Girl and My Mother Didn’t Want Me "

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    A Study Guide for Joyce Carol Oates's "When I Was a Little Girl and My Mother Didn’t Want Me ", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateMay 15, 2018
    ISBN9781410393524
    A Study Guide for Joyce Carol Oates's "When I Was a Little Girl and My Mother Didn’t Want Me "

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      A Study Guide for Joyce Carol Oates's "When I Was a Little Girl and My Mother Didn’t Want Me " - Gale

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      When I Was a Little Girl and My Mother Didn't Want Me

      Joyce Carol Oates

      1997

      Introduction

      Joyce Carol Oates is one of the most prominent living American novelists, often considered a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Even while pursuing a full-time career as a literature teacher, she has written at an incredibly prolific pace, producing forty-two literary novels, series of mystery novels, and numerous collections of dramas, short stories, poetry, and essays, in addition to books for young adults and children. Like many American authors, she has explored her family's experience in an immigrant community (Hungarian in her case), in novels like A Garden of Earthly Delights (1967). When I Was a Little Girl and My Mother Didn't Want Me is a 1997 play that explores this same territory. Expanding on themes in the 1967 novel, Oates in this play depicts the devastation of a character based closely on her own mother, Carolina, as her family is torn apart by violence and poverty. The play can be found in the Oates collections New Plays (1998) and Dr. Magic: Six One Act Plays (2004).

      Author Biography

      Oates was born on June 6, 1938, in Lockport, a suburb of Buffalo, New York. Her family was workingclass, and she was the first member of it to graduate from high school. About the time of her graduation, her parents had a second daughter, Lynn Ann, who was severely autistic. Oates recalls her childhood as being remarkably stable and happy. Only as an adult did she find out that one of her grandfathers had committed suicide and the other had been murdered. Oates attended Syracuse University on a scholarship and took a degree in English, graduating as valedictorian in 1960. She earned a master's degree in English from the University of Wisconsin and there met her husband, Raymond Smith. Both became English

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