Foxfire (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Joyce Carol Oates
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1952-1956
- Setting: “Hammond,” a small upstate New York city near Lake Ontario
- Principal Characters: Madeleine Faith “Maddy” Wirtz, Margaret Ann “Legs” Sadovsky, Betty “Goldie” Siefried, Elizabeth “Rita” O’Hagan, Violet “Snow White” Kahn
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: 1950’s, Girls, United States or Americans, Sexism, Teenagers, Crime or criminals, Prostitution or prostitutes, Alienation, Gangs, youth, Poverty or poor people, Rape, Violence, Feminism, Revenge, Sexual harassment, Kidnapping, Women’s rights, Typewriters
- Locales: Hammond, NY, Lake Ontario
Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang tells of girls lost in the bland, male 1 950’s, but girls who band together to work out a revenge for what has happened to women before and since. Foxfire is thus a novel about crimes against women and about what happens to the young women who unite to fight the people and the system that perpetuate those crimes.
The novel begins on November 12, 1952, when sixteen-year-old Legs Sadovsky escapes from her grandmother’s house in Plattsburgh, New York-where the State Department of Human Welfare Services has sent her to get her...
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