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What does Joyce Carol Oates focus on in her works?

The spiritual, sexual, and intellectual decline of modern American society

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Joyce Carol Oates birthdate

1938

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What was Joyce Carol Oates’ childhood like?

Grew up on a farm with 2 siblings

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Why was Joyce Carol Oates’ first book rejected?

Her topic, rehab of drug addict, deemed too depressing

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Joyce Carol Oates’ education

Masters degree

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Joyce Carol Oates’ occupations

writer and teacher

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Why did Joyce Carol Oates release a novel under a pseudonym?

She wanted to escape from her own name

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Common themes: Joyce Carol Oates

race, violence

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Alice Walker occupations

author, social worker, activist

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What term did Alice Walker coin?

womanism (Black feminism)

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What genres has Alice Walker wrote?

novels, short stories, poetry

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Who is the first black woman to win a Nobel Prize

Toni Morrison

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What did Toni Morrison win the Nobel Prize for?

Beloved

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Genres Morrison wrote in

librettos for plays, novels, literary criticism, 1 short story

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What race was rarely featured in Toni Morrison’s works?

white

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What movement did Leslie Marmon Silko shape?

Native American Rennaisance

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Amy Tan birthdate

1952

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What did Amy Tan write about?

Chinese-American women, the immigrant experience, and relationship between Chinese immigrant mothers and their American-born daughters

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Who were Amy Tan’s parents?

Chinese immigrants

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Where did Amy Tan grow up?

Switzerland and California

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Amy Tan’s education

university-level

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Who is John Updike often compared to?

William Dean Howwells

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What is John Updike’s influence?

most significant “middle-ness” writer in post-modernism

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What genre is Raymond Carver the head of?

Post-alcoholic blue-collar minimalist hyperrealism (dirty realism)

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What was Raymond Carver’s biggest struggle in life?

recovering alcoholic

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What jobs did Carver have?

writer, janitor, sawmill hand, delivery person, sales representative

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Carver’s education

university-level

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What genre did Carver revitalize?

Realism

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Who was Carver compared to?

Hemingway (sparse prose style, “zero” endings)

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Why was Carver hospitalized in the 70s?

Alcholism

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Carver’s married life

Married and had kids straight out of high school

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Carver’s death

died early due to ill health (alcoholism)

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