Foxfire (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Joyce Carol Oates
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: 1952-1956
- Setting: Hammond, a fictitious small city in upstate New York near Lake Ontario
- Principal Characters: Madeleine Faith “Maddy” Wirtz, Margaret Ann “Legs” Sadovsky, Elizabeth “Rita” O’Hagan, Betty “Goldie” Siefried, Loretta “Lana” Maguire, Violet “Snow White” Kahn, Whitney Kellogg, Jr.
- 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
Form and Content
Joyce Carol Oates’s Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang is a novel about young women lost in the violent male-dominated 1950’s 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 in the United States and about what happens to the young women who unite to fight the people and the systems that perpetuate those crimes.
The novel begins when sixteen-year-old “Legs” Sadovsky escapes from her grandmother’s house in Plattsburgh, New York—where the...
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