Foxfire (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Joyce Carol Oates
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Novel
- 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 is a novel about girls lost in the bland, male Fifties 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 system which perpetuate those crimes. As Maddy Wirtz, the narrator of the novel, writes, “it was a time of violence against girls and women but we didn’t have the language to talk about it then.” FOXFIRE the novel is about the discovery of that language, as FOXFIRE the gang is about the...
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