Joyce Carol Oates (Identities and Issues in Literature)

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Joyce Carol Oates was reared in New York. She was graduated from Syracuse University and earned a master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin. In l962, Oates and her husband Raymond J. Smith settled in Detroit. The poverty, industry, social turmoil, and riots of the inner city provided fodder for Oates’s creative imagination. Consequently she utilized the setting in several works, including the novel them and the story “How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again.”

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