In this essay, I examine Joyce Carol Oates’ fiction about Detroit, focusing especially on the novel them which is set mainly during the turbulent decade of the 1960s. Drawing on Oates’ own essays about the city in literature and about her life in Detroit, I illustrate how her novel presents some significant revisions of the topos of the naturalistic city novel and is built around a compelling use of the archetype of the journey to delineate a Twentieth-Century version of the classic contrast between a rural Eden and a hellish urban environment.
"'All of Detroit is melodrama': Joyce Carol Oates' them"
FARRANT, Winifred
1992-01-01
Abstract
In this essay, I examine Joyce Carol Oates’ fiction about Detroit, focusing especially on the novel them which is set mainly during the turbulent decade of the 1960s. Drawing on Oates’ own essays about the city in literature and about her life in Detroit, I illustrate how her novel presents some significant revisions of the topos of the naturalistic city novel and is built around a compelling use of the archetype of the journey to delineate a Twentieth-Century version of the classic contrast between a rural Eden and a hellish urban environment.
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